Re: [lfs-support] linux 5.5.9: shutdown -h hangs on detaching cdrom

2020-04-21 Thread Michael Shell
On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:48:29 +0200 Stephen Berman wrote: > the machine did power off. So this took longer than the 20 seconds > it took when calling shutdown immediately after logging in but > unlike when running emacs or startx it didn't hang indefinitely. And I thought it couldn't get any

Re: [lfs-support] linux 5.5.9: shutdown -h hangs on detaching cdrom

2020-04-21 Thread Stephen Berman
On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 02:08:36 -0400 Michael Shell wrote: > On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 13:30:40 +0200 > Stephen Berman wrote: > > >> Do you mean run `more' in one tty and while it's running do `shutdown -h >> now' in another tty? > > > Yes, and perhaps also by putting the process into the background: >