Slacko wouldn't shutdown so I transferred the Save file

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Slacko wouldn't shutdown so I transferred the Save file

#1 Post by Pelo »

Slacko 5.3.2.4 does not shut down so i have made that :
Save file transfered from USB to another USB (slacko 5.3.3 installed on)

And using the save file with the Slacko USB 5.3.3 ( Slacko 5.3.3 updates the save file 5.3.2.4 to 5.3.3 when loading it) all is OK.

Firstly i thought pendrive EMTEC was bad. I was wrong (Pub !)
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Re: Slacko 5.3.2.4 does not shut down

#2 Post by musher0 »

Pelo wrote:Slacko 5.3.2.4 does not shut down so i have made that :
Save file transfered from USB to another USB (slacko 5.3.3 installed on)

And using the save file with the Slacko USB 5.3.3 ( Slacko 5.3.3 updates the save file 5.3.2.4 to 5.3.3 when loading it) all is OK.

This bug appears now more and more often.
Hi, Pélo.

Thanks for your report. It's good to know.

About:
> This bug appears now more and more often.
That is sad indeed...

Best regards.
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Re: Slacko 5.3.2.4 does not shut down

#3 Post by Karl Godt »

musher0 wrote:
Pelo wrote:Slacko 5.3.2.4 does not shut down so i have made that :
Save file transfered from USB to another USB (slacko 5.3.3 installed on)

And using the save file with the Slacko USB 5.3.3 ( Slacko 5.3.3 updates the save file 5.3.2.4 to 5.3.3 when loading it) all is OK.

This bug appears now more and more often.
Hi, Pélo.

Thanks for your report. It's good to know.

About:
> This bug appears now more and more often.
That is sad indeed...

Best regards.
read here about recent fixes to rc.shutdown :
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02633
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02697
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02789
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02831

Slacko is woof2 latest normally so should have the embedded fixes .

My current Dell won't reboot with kernels later=2.6.37.x so I stick with 2.6.30.x .

Pelo

wmpoweroff wmreboot wmexit

#4 Post by Pelo »

#killall X #default is SIGTERM.
#sleep 1 #v1.0.7
#exec killall -9 X #v1.0.7 make sure X is killed.
Activate lines by removing # (wmpoweroff wmreboot wmexit) is it the solution ?

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#5 Post by Karl Godt »

There is a problem if the user runs xwin fvwm from the prompt !

xwin scripts writes fvwm to /etc/windowmanager .

.xinitrc in $HOME runs as last attempt some windowmanager, the
creator decides to be default ( usually jwm ) .

IF IF IF exec which $CURRENTWM fails !!

and CURRENTWM is the entry in /etc/windowmanager .

But when exec jwm as last line of .xinitrc, /etc/windowmanager does not get updated .

But all /usr/bin/wm* scripts read /etc/windowmanager too
and kill the entry in /etc/windowmanager .

But the /etc/windowmanager is not running , but the last fallback without updating /etc/windowmanger .

IF IF IF the /etc/windowmanager would be running, everzthing would be fine and .xinitrc finishing and thus xinit also .

xinit finishes also if X is killed .

PROBLEM PROBLEM PROBLEM : windowmanager entry in /etc/windowmanger is NOT running and killall $CURRENTWM does nothing
except producing error messages in /tmp/xerrs.log
like killall fvwm : No process killed ..

The fallback windowmanager (jwm) is still running and nothing happens .

.xinitrc needs some fixes to write the wm into /etc/windowmanager
it actually starts if the wm is not same as the entry in /etc/windowmanager
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#6 Post by musher0 »

Hello, all.

I know it is only partially on subject, but I'd like to report this, FWIW.

After running a few hours, Slacko-6.0b also has a problem if you go back
to the main console with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. If you try to run htop from
there, htop doesn't show up, Slacko seems to freeze, with gibberish in the
1st line of the console.

Then, you can't do anything, what you type (such as F10 to get out of
htop, or xwin jwm to get back to X) doesn't show, and the Return key
only moves the cursor to the top and bottom left corners of the console.
You have to hit the reboot button on the computer to get out of there.

Best regards.

musher0
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