Re: rhgb freezing computer

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Dave Jones (davej redhat com) said: 
> Somewhat dated now, but here's the log from FC5-ish system from
> the point of clicking 'shutdown' on the gnome menu..
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/davej/filemon/09-shutdown
> 
> My personal belief is that the initscripts need a way to distinguish
> between 'service foo stop' and 'system is shutting down'.
> It should be perfectly fine to shut down the majority of services
> uncleanly.
> killing dhclient, disabling iptables, ifdown'ing interfaces etc
> all strikes me as a glorious waste of time.

I prototyped this once a few years (ugh) ago - the simple solution
cut shutdown time in half. It's just a matter of how cleanly we
want to implement it.

Bill