Shutdown not unmounting drive cleanly

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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On 1/17/2006 12:59 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I've been using the session manager's shutdown function without problems 
> for a while, but the last two times, on rebooting I'm told that my drive 
> was not shut down cleanly and fsck is invoked.  I shut down my last 
> session manually and rebooted cleanly, so it seems that 
> xfsm-shutdown-helper is what's causing the problem.  Any thoughts? 
> (Debian testing, xfce 4.2).

This has nothing to do with Xfce.  xfsm-shutdown-helper just verifies
that you have permission to shut the system down (or reboot it).  The
'shutdown' command is actually used to halt or reboot the system.  If
it's not shutting down cleanly, it's a problem with Debian, not Xfce.
Try watching console output while the system is shutting down to see why
it fails.  Unfortunately, the system logger is probably shut down by
that time, so on-disk log files won't help you.

	-brian

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