Verily I say unto thee, that Patrick spake thusly: > Hi, > > Intermittently when I shutdown my laptop with up-to-date FC6 the > shutdown process hangs at "Turning off quotas". It just sits there in > thin air. Also tried waiting for a few minutes but it seems to hang > forever. Anyone know what's causing this and how I might fix this? Try this: Go to runlevel 3 ~]# init 3 Have a look at /etc/init.d/halt ~]# less /etc/init.d/halt One step at a time, execute the sequence of steps in the "halt" script. Keep an eye on /var/log/messages In particular, watch what happens when you manually run this: ~]# /sbin/quotaoff -aug Run ps and look for zombies: ~]# ps -eLf | grep defunct Try to manually remove modules, one at a time, and see if it makes any difference: ~]# lsmod | less ~]# rmmod <module name> I'd guess that something isn't letting go of its resources when it's told to die by killall during halt. Check carefully what you are running during the course of a session, and see if *not* running any particular thing makes a difference. -- K. http://slated.org .---- | I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system, | which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product | is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2> `---- Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) on sky, running kernel 2.6.20-1.2307.fc5 21:02:48 up 2 days, 5:14, 3 users, load average: 0.20, 0.20, 0.19
