On Apr 2, 2005 8:28 AM, Collins Richey <crichey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Has anyone else encountered a loop and failure to shutdown on CentOS4?
> This has occurred twice in the past month, but unfortunately I failed
> to write down the looping messages. The only relevant problems I found
> via Google reference raid controllers, and I have POI (plain ol' IDE).
>
> Doh! Obviously I wuill need to record the errors.
>
> My environment is run-level 5 with GDM, but I use IceWm instead of one
> of the more common choices. IceWm shuts down cleanly. The loop occurs
> after selecting Shutdown from the GDM login panel. Errata are current
> as of last night.
>
OK, finally noted the error message:
"vt: argh driver_data is NULL!"
After googling, FC2 users are reporting this as well - maybe a kernel
bug? Several reporters think that this is due to a race condition in
console support, but it obviously isn't very high on anyone's list of
priorities.
Fortunately, it down't happen every time, and even more fortunately,
ext3 is good at recovering crashes.
--
Collins
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