Topic: Scolling text on console when shutting down

[judgej]

I am having a problem shutting down an e-smith server 6.0. This is a problem I have seen on several different machines, all older P2 (233MHz), but from different manufacturers.

When I shut down, the services appear to be shutting down correctly, one-by-one, but it then reaches a point where the screen suddenly fills with scrolling text messages, and only switching off the power recovers. It boots up again, but the server does fix a few orphan inodes as it does so.

The text looks like messages of some sort, and do not seem to be following any kind of pattern. It scrolls so fast I have no way of reading it, so I don't know what it says.

Any idea what this could be? It has happened on several machines, and I can't find any reference to this problem in the forums (probably haven't hit the right keywords).

Thanks,

-- Jason

[Anonymous]

Must just be me then...

I've downloaded and burned a new disk, reinstalled from scratch, but still the problem remains. I can see the word 'kernel' and lost of hex numbers in the errors that scroll up the screen, but I have no idea why a clean shut-down does not work.

-- Jason

[bushinc]

> I am having a problem shutting down an e-smith
> server 6.0. This is a problem I have seen on
> several different machines, all older P2 (233MHz),
> but from different manufacturers.

I haven't had a problem shutting down a server.  My guess would be there's a problem with your hardware, either compatibility or failure.

Is there something in common with all the machines that you've tried this on?  NIC, memory, hard drive, etc.  You could try disabling any devices that aren't being used..ie USB, etc.

Sorry I don't have any better ideas.

Steve

[Anonymous]

Thanks - it is not something I have been able to put my finger on. Generally this seems to happen with Pentium I machines. The latest has a Gigabyte 430TX motherboard.

When the system is running, it works fine and there are no errors in the log, but shutting down I see this problem. I don't want to just ignore this problem as it does leave the filesystem in an incomplete state (it does recover - but who knows how many times it will do that?).

There is not a lot of hardware I can swap out. Basically we have a motherboard, hard disk, CDROM. memory and CPU. I will try a different video card and perhaps a faster IDE card than the one on the motherboard, and see what happens.

Ta,

-- Jason