Bug#374040: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#374040: shutdown: activity after "Will now halt"

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> However just before my monitor is powered off, I see something like
> usb 2-1: new high speed USB device ...
> scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices

What machine *exactly* do you use?  What kernel?  With which patches?

And do you have *any* USB mass storage devices in that machine?

> shutdown -h -H now, but then I have to remove the battery of my IBM
> Thinkpad to get out of the frozen state created.)

Which ThinkPad? AFAIK all of them (in fact, every box I ever heard of or
worked with) let you press the power-button and hold it pressed to force a
power-off.

If it is freezing that hard, you have a kernel or hardware issue.

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