[gentoo-user] unable to shutdown or halt cleanly (console-kit and esd not killed)

[Allan Gottlieb]

Often (now, perhaps always) when I try to halt using either
halt
from the command line or the
shutdown
option from the gnome dialog box at the welcome screen
the effort fails.

If I try to shutdown from gnome, the shutdown hangs at
the unmounting file systems.

I then tried
shutdown now
from a text terminal.
When in single user mode, I tried
umount -a
which indicated that several filesystems were still busy.

I tried
lsof
and noticed that console-kit-daemon and esd
were still running.

I manually kill console-kit-daemon and can then halt.

/var/log/messages contains
Apr 8 00:32:46 allan console-kit-daemon[6139]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_async_queue_unref: assertion `queue->waiting_threads == 0' failed

I would appreciate help in understanding why policy-kit-daemon is not
terminating on a normal system shutdown.

thanks,
allan

[Eric Martin]

Do you have any nfs mounts? I find that I have problems shutting down
as well and I suspect it's because I'm turning off eth0 before
unmounting my shares. I need to do more research though so I can back
this up.

[Allan Gottlieb]

At Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:36:24 -0400 Eric Martin <freak...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you have any nfs mounts? I find that I have problems shutting down
> as well and I suspect it's because I'm turning off eth0 before
> unmounting my shares. I need to do more research though so I can back
> this up.

Yes I have an nsf mount, but it seems to be unmounting. The problem is
definitely that console-kit-daemon does not die and thus has open files
in usr so it can't be unmounted.

(I am using LVM2)

thanks for you help,
allan

[Eric Martin]

I'm running LVM as well and I have nfs but I didn't know until I just
looked. Lately it's been working ok so next time it happens I'll check
if that daemon is running.

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