Hi On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:05 PM, roland <raw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all. I have a question on hangs on shutdown. I am running a 2.6.31.5 > kernel. The machine is running an athlon64 processor and the > motherboard is a MSI K8N Neo V2.0 H nForce3 250. Machine works great other > than hanging on shutdown. Looks like the hang is in > umounting the filesystems in preparation for powering off. Almost looks > like the hard drives are powered down too soon. This happens > only after a long time running. Earlier kernels ( 2.6.25 ) don't do this. > System has 2 pata drives on the on board nvidia IDE ports and one > on a silicon image ATA controller. Reason for my confusion is that this in > new behavior after going to the 2.6.3[0-1] kernel's . Perhaps you could try to dump stack trace using SysRq key. From there, if it indeed could show stack trace, let's see where it stucks... -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ