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From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
Subject: Re: Problems shutting down when running XFree86
In-Reply-To: felawka@sitka.triumf.ca's message of 25 Feb 1993 22:50:10 GMT
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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 05:05:01 GMT
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In article <1mjif2INN291@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> felawka@sitka.triumf.ca (Larry Felawka) writes:
   In article <DFR.93Feb25102410@rhino.ioc.co.uk> dfr@ioc.co.uk (Doug Rabson) writes:
   >I have just installed 386bsd, patchkit-0.2.1 and XFree86-1.2 on my
   >386sx machine.  I am using codrv-0.1.1 for my console driver.
   >
   >My problem is that when I try to shut the system down while X is
   >running, the system freezes instead of shutting down.  The same thing
   >happens whether I use reboot(8) or shutdown(8).  The system just stops
   >with the disk activity light on continuously.  Has anyone else seen
   >this?  Are there any fixes?
   >--

   Yep, I also see this.  I have a 486 DX-33 with ET4000 VGA card and am running
   Chris Demetriou's com driver.  If anyone wants to make a more detailed
   hardware/software comparison, please e-mail me.

If you installed patchkit 0.2.1 and have recompiled and installed init
then init should send a SIGTERM to the server and wait 10 seconds
before sending SIGKILL to any remaining processes.

This allows the server to exit gracefully and put the keyboard and
screen back in a reasonable state.  Otherwise they may both be
unresponsive.  Rich