Hi all, I have Gentoo 2004.2 system . I have found a bug in the shutdown process(atleast it logically seems to be a bug).I request u all to try it on ur system to check whether it is distro specific or related to kernel so that i can file it in the specific list.
Procedure that led to the bug: 1)Booted the gentoo system 2)Logged in as user(non-root) 3)issued startx to start kde3.2.2 4)Logged out of kde.It put me back on terminal prompt 5) executed "su" to become root 6) executed "init 0" to shutdown 7) Last message on terminal "Power down" . Now the next step was something very very unexpected 8) Pressed "Enter".It brought me to command prompt as root. 9)executing "ls" gave me a directory listing of the root directory 10) Executed "man man".This command did not execute.
I don't understand how did the command prompt appear and how did the "ls" command got executed when I had shutdown my system.
Pankaj
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 04:20:46AM +0530, Pankaj wrote:
I have found a bug in the shutdown process(atleast it logically seems to be a bug).I request u all to try it on ur system to check whether it is distro specific or related to kernel so that i can file it in the specific list.
Well it could be kernel related and it could still not show up in all distros. Depends on how the kernel is compiled in each distro. This is further complicated by the presence of distro-specific kernel patches.
I don't understand how did the command prompt appear and how did the "ls" command got executed when I had shutdown my system.
Well, I'll let you know the next time I shutdown ... maybe a month or so from now if you're lucky ;)
Is the KDE step important? Have you tried without it? Are the results consistently reproducible either way? Do you have a buggy chipset or a kernel that did not include bugfixes for your chipset when it was compiled? Are you using kernel patches or modules that are normally not present in a typical desktop?
Any news of this anywhere on the net at all ... gentoo list, kernel list ...
Sameer.
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Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe