On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 13:31:53 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote:

> > The very first thing to try is to change your /etc/conf.d/alsasound so
> > that it has these two lines:
> >
> > # Deprecated options:
> > # Upstream feels, and we wholehartedly agree, that this was a silly
> > idea UNLOAD_ON_STOP="no"
> > KILLPROC_ON_STOP="no"
> >
> > May not help, but that change should be made in any case.
> >  
> 
> Definitely related to alsa. I deleted alsasound from runlevel boot

What's the point of quoting a message that gives useful advice, then
going on to explain that you ignored that advice and took a completely
different, and non-functional, approach? Walt's advice is sound (sorry :)
those variables should be set to no top prevent the alsa module unloading
that is apparently stopping your shutdown.

> UPDATE Just rebooted and ran lsmod. The modules with the string
> '_hda_' in the middle are still loaded. Some of the others, like
> 'snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device' are gone. Except
> for 'snd_pcm, snd_timer, snd'; they're still loaded. The logic, if
> any, of what's going on escapes me. If I turned off alsa in rc-update
> why should it still load some of the modules. They're not it
> modules.autoload.d.

They've been loaded by the hotplug system when the hardware was detected.


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Neil Bothwick

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