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Isomorphism

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Registered: 2008-04-29

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Arch does not shut down properly

Hello all,

If I try shutting arch down, the process just hangs at "Deeactivating swap......................[BUSY]". I waited for around 10 minutes before turning the power off.

Does anyone know why it happens and what I should do to correct it?

Thanks,
Isomorphism

oliver

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Registered: 2007-12-12

Posts: 448

Re: Arch does not shut down properly

every time or just randomly?  Can you post the output of your fdisk, df -k and the contents of /etc/fstab?

Isomorphism

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Registered: 2008-04-29

Posts: 41

Re: Arch does not shut down properly

every time or just randomly?  Can you post the output of your fdisk, df -k and the contents of /etc/fstab?

Actually it happens randomly

Here is the output of my fdisk, df -k and the contents of /etc/fstab...

[spai@L ~]$ fdisk df -k
fdisk: invalid option -- k

Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK     Change partition table
       fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK  List partition table(s)
       fdisk -s PARTITION           Give partition size(s) in blocks
       fdisk -v                     Give fdisk version
Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda
and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7
-u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units
-b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors

[spai@L ~]$ cat /etc/fstab
#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0


/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd   udf   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0   vfat   user,noauto   0      0

Thanks for insight,
Isomorphism

Last edited by Isomorphism (2008-05-04 17:19:07)

oliver

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Registered: 2007-12-12

Posts: 448

Re: Arch does not shut down properly

$ fdisk df -k

sorry, I should have been clearer...  "df -k" is one command that should be run at a terminal... the fdisk command is (as root) "fdisk -l /dev/sda" (assuming your disk is sda (and that flag is an 'ell', not a 'one') and should also be run at a terminal

Isomorphism

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Registered: 2008-04-29

Posts: 41

Re: Arch does not shut down properly

Ok.. here it is

[spai@L ~]$ df -k
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             14421344   3366056  10322728  25% /
/dev/sda3             61827008  53888456   4797848  92% /home
none                    119004         0    119004   0% /dev/shm

[spai@L ~]$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
Password:

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc49fc49f

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        1824    14651248+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2            1825        1909      682762+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3            1910        9729    62814150   83  Linux

Last edited by Isomorphism (2008-05-04 17:31:44)

oliver

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Registered: 2007-12-12

Posts: 448

Re: Arch does not shut down properly

not sure if it is the problem, but your line for sda2 in fdisk should probably be system type "linux swap" not "linux"... id 82 instead of 83.  You can change it in fdisk