Panic when doing shutdown or reboot

Jonathan Ryshpan jonrysh at pacbell.net
Fri Mar 8 20:33:15 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 18:35 -0500, Bill Perkins wrote:
> On 2013.03.07 18:21, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 15:17 -0500, Bill Perkins wrote:
> > > The panic message displays on the console before the system freezes.
> >  
> > > You need to boot your Fedora system without the "rhgb quiet" at the end 
> > > of the linux boot line in order to see all of the details, or hit the 
> > > ESC key at the right point in time during boot or shutdown.  
> > 
> > Removing "rhgb quiet" from the boot line is a very good idea.  It's a
> > lot more fun to watch the messages flash by under the 4 penguins than to
> > watch a more or less empty screen.  Unfortunately, the system puts the
> > monitor to sleep after system shutdown, and the screen goes blank.  I
> > *think* I see messages about unmounting file systems and that I don't
> > see a panic message, but I'm not sure.
> > 
> > I'll try to find a monitor setting to keep the screen from going blank
> > when it receives no signal.  Any advice would be welcome: the monitor is
> > an Acer P243W)
> 
> Try tapping the shift key periodically during the shutdown and the 
> screen should stay lit.  Once the system freezes with the panic 
> message, the screen may not go to sleep again until you reset the 
> system.

If only... Tried tapping SHIFT lots of times during a couple of halts
without result.  Looked at the BIOS setup to see if there's anything
relevant, nope.  Similarly nothing obvious in the monitor manual.

jon



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