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.
On Apr 2, 2005 8:28 AM, Collins Richey crichey@gmail.com 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.
On 4/8/05, Collins Richey crichey@gmail.com wrote:
On Apr 2, 2005 8:28 AM, Collins Richey crichey@gmail.com wrote:
OK, finally noted the error message:
"vt: argh driver_data is NULL!"
Fortunately, it down't happen every time, and even more fortunately, ext3 is good at recovering crashes.
I just upgraded VMware to 5.0.0, and upgraded my CentOS-4 guest machine to match, including changing the guest OS type setting from RHEL3 to RHEL4.
I now get this loop quite reliably on every attempt to shut down the guest OS *IF* I have the virtual CDROM device connected to the host CDROM but there is no disk in the host CDROM drive. If I disconnect the virtual CDROM, then the system shuts down cleanly.
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Collins Richey