On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 02:19:05PM -0800, Don deJuan wrote: > Well still nothing in the logs that even resemble any help for me > which is becoming frustrating. > > Though with further testing what I thought helped does not appear to > have. I was able to shutdown/reboot about 10 times smoothly. Then > after that each shutdown or reboot I tried went back to the old > behavior of having the red screen. > > I am back to having to use shutdown -hF 1 or longer wait to get it > to smoothly shutdown or reboot. > > Thanks again to those who have offered some insite so far, I will > keep trying more things to see if I can track this down, or fingers > crossed some miraculous update comes that automagically fixes me ;P > Just an idea change some of the shutdown scripts, explicitly unload the nvidia blob etc and maybe include some kind of "milestone" debug information in the scripts in /etc/rc.*shutdown ... you might just by accident find the culprit and get things right with a while kill -0 loop or sleep. cheers! mar77i
