[PLUG] System Hangs on Shutdown

[Russell Evans]

Is hotplug setting up the card reader? If so, then I would think shutting
hotplug down should remove the usdfs module. 

Thank you
Russell




On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:05:54 -0700, Richard Steffens said:

> When I choose to halt or reboot my Debian desktop machine, the process
>  hangs at:
>  
>  usb.c: deregistering driver usbdevfs
>  
>  At that point, the only thing that has any effect on the system is the
>  reset button. If, instead of choosing reboot or halt from the X login
>  screen, I instead switch to a text console, log in as root, run telinit
>  1, give root's password when asked if I want to perform maintenance, and
>  then run halt, the system will shut down correctly.
>  
>  It seems to me that the problem must be related to the USB smartcard
>  reader (I'm pretty sure that's what the usbdevfs is pointing to). Could
>  there be something wrong with the order in which shut down occurs? Where
>  can I find what controls telinit 1 versus normal shutdown? Maybe by
>  looking at the order of shutdown for telinit 1, I can see what the order
>  should be for a normal shutdown, and see if it indeed is.
>  
>  Thanks in advance.
>