Julia not shutting down (help me diagnose) [SOLVED]

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uchchwhash

Julia not shutting down (help me diagnose) [SOLVED]

Post by uchchwhash »

so I installed Julia (from a USB stick) and looks beautiful. the only problem is I can feel it is a bit slower than Isadora which I am running side-by-side.

but the real show-stopper for me is that it is not shutting down. I mean, it hangs whenever I try to shut it down. since nobody else seem to have that problem it must be something peculiar to my system. so I will try my best to supply as much information as possible.

1. Isadora is running perfectly.
2. even the live version of Julia from the USB does not shutdown. noticed it, ignored it, hoping the installed version would not have the problem.
3. if I shutdown, the last message on the screen says tty1 was killed by a TERM signal. so whatever is wrong should be after that.
4. in recovery mode there is a hopefully helpful message

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init: rcS main process (1285) killed by TERM signal
[  110.660670] phys0 -> rt2080_wait_wpdma_ready: Error - WPDMA TX/RX busy, aborting
[  110.754354] phys0 -> rt2x00pci_regbusy_read: Error - Indirect register access failed: offset=0x00007010, value=0xffffffff
the last line looks nasty although I have no idea what it says.

machine spec: It's an MSI netbook, Intel Atom N270 1.6G 533MHz FSB 512K L2, 1GB DDR2 memory, but perhaps most importantly, the network controller is RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe which is a bit unusual. Isadora runs a RT3090 driver that I got from the internet, but Julia seems to have picked it up on her own. tell me that is not the problem.

thanks in advance.
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richyrich

Re: Julia not shutting down (help me diagnose)

Post by richyrich »

Hi, please post the terminal output of : inxi -N (enter), and ifconfig
uchchwhash

Re: Julia not shutting down (help me diagnose)

Post by uchchwhash »

hmm.

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inxi -N
seems to point to the failed thingie.

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Network:   Card-1 RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe driver rt2800pci
           Card-2 JMicron Corp. JMC260 PCI Express Fast Ethernet Controller driver jme

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ifconfig
says

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eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1b:7c:3c:00:c2  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:42 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:2880 (2.8 KB)  TX bytes:2880 (2.8 KB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:92:c3:80:c2:cd  
          inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::292:c3ff:fe80:c2cd/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:4065 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4000 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:4264859 (4.2 MB)  TX bytes:664172 (664.1 KB)

uchchwhash

Re: Julia not shutting down (help me diagnose)

Post by uchchwhash »

in Isadora I use the RT3090 driver from https://launchpad.net/~markus-tisoft/+a ... /+packages do you think I should do the same here as well?
richyrich

Re: Julia not shutting down (help me diagnose)

Post by richyrich »

Card-1 RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe driver rt2800pci
Yes, looks like it's trying to use the 2800 drivers . . .

let us know if the new drivers resolve this, good luck, richy
uchchwhash

Re: Julia not shutting down (help me diagnose)

Post by uchchwhash »

hi richy,

I installed Markus Heberling's package but

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inxi -N && ifconfig
output remains unchanged. that would mean somehow the RT3090 driver failed to override the RT2800 driver, right? and yes the problem persists. how do I get rid of the RT2800 driver? I searched of rt2800 in synaptic but nothing came up. but synaptic shows rt3900 installed. help :oops:

thanks again,

Imam
richyrich

Re: Julia not shutting down (help me diagnose)

Post by richyrich »

You can blacklist rt2800pci by editing /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
Just add blacklist rt2800pci
Reboot so it is gone.
olicanollie

Re: Julia not shutting down (help me diagnose)

Post by olicanollie »

Use lsmod command to list which modules are active and being used by what.

Should indicate whether the rt2800's are in fact active instead of rt3090

I used rmmod to get rid of the 2800 modules I didn't want in my kernel. I then have a script to load the right one for me (rt2860) on boot, this is simply sudo modprobe rt2860sta

Very simple way of doing things, and perhaps is more extreme than is needed (blacklisting is probably better, but I didn't have the patience at the time, just wanted it done as my issue was internet connection) It works fine for me.
uchchwhash

Re: Julia not shutting down (help me diagnose)

Post by uchchwhash »

followed richy's approach of blacklisting. inxi -N shows rt2860 now instead, I expected it to show rt3090 though.

but the bottom line is: problem solved.

thank you so much guys. help much appreciated. LM and its community are the best. and I assume you guys don't get paid for this, ha!

:D

keep up the good work.
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