Re: xdm prevents me from shutting the system down clean

[Paul Goyette <paul%vps1.whooppee.com@localhost>]

I used to get this, too.  But the problem seems to have disappeared,
at least on recent (last 30 days or so) -current kernels (within the
last 30 days or so).

I don't know of any specific commit that would have fixed this, but
if someone can narrow it down it would be nice to get it pulled up
to netbsd-7 branch before we ship 7.1  :)



On Wed, 4 Nov 2015, Ottavio Caruso wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been using 7.0-rc3 on amd64 for a few months. I haven't bothered
> upgrading 7.0 proper so far. I am using native x11.
>
> The only way I can shutdown the system clean is to open a virtual
> console, log in as root, kill xdm manually and then issue the poweroff
> command.
>
> Not your usual user friendly set up, is it?
>
> In all other cases, whether by pressing the power button or issuing
> "sudo poweroff" or "sudo shutdown -h now",  the system hangs forever.
>
> When I enable debugging messages, I see that it is repeatedly try to
> kill a pid that is associated with xdm.
>
> Where would I start debugging this issue?
>
> --
> Ottavio

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