shutdown and reboot do not work correct

[Garrett Cooper]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 7:04 PM, kevin <kevinxlinuz at 163.com> wrote:
> Attilio Rao wrote:
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>> 2008/11/5, kevin <kevinxlinuz at 163.com>:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>   I update everything this afternoon(both kernel and world). when i try
>>> to
>>> reboot or shutdown system,i find something goes wrong.After system output
>>> "All buffers synced" and "Accounting disabled",system does not power off
>>> as
>>> normal. the keyboard still works and when i press the power button ,it
>>> output "acpi: suspend request ignored (not ready yet)", "acpi: request to
>>> enter state S5 failed (error 6)". Any one meet same problem?
>>>
>>
>> Could you please break into DDB and see where it is hanging?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Attilio
>>
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>>
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> I break into DDB and find lots of kernel threads are in SL stat,thread
> [accounting] is in stat ZL.I guess accounting can't exit correctly.After i
> turn off accounting,i can shutdown system now.
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> Thanks,
> kevin

I'm getting something similar trying to reboot my server with an older
image; oddly enough Samba worked like a champ and I was connected a
few days ago fine (then I rebooted my client and lost the ssh
connection). Details soon to come.
-Garrett