schnullimaus Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Hi Forum, I am running Leopard 10.5.4 on a Gigabyte GA EP35-DS3P. I am having issues with system shutdown, as many people have, I have installed the CPU Preference Plane (via onyx), and if I disable one CPU manually the system shuts down properly. So my problem seems related to the known issue of disabling all CPU Cores at shutdown... I did then install shutdown_fix, which basically installes a compiled onecore.c as a startupitem, which calls /sbin/poweroff_fix in the StopService section. While it is working fine from command line (either directly running /Library/StartupItems/shutdownfix/shutdownfix stop or running /sbin/SystemStarter stop shutdownfix disables one CUP as expected. My problem now is that despite all of that I still have shutdown problems and I *assume* that for some reasons the fix does not get executed on system shutdown. I did modify the line /sbin/poweroff_fix in /Library/StartupItems/shutdownfix/shutdownfix to /sbin/poweroff_fix > /shutdownfix.txt, expecting a file beeing visible afer a restart indicating that poweroff_fix was executed, but there is no file, so that's why I assume the SystemStarter does not execute the shutdownfix / stop at shutdown. (putting an echo start > /shutdown-start.txt into the StartService section creates a file after boot, so I know the StartupItem gets executed on Startup) My questions are: - are there known issues / configuration tasks which must be considered with the SystemStarter to execute ShutdownScripts ? - which (probably more accurate) options do I have for troubleshooting = - am I alone or do others have the same / similar issues? Thanks a lot, best regards, Stephan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124326-shutdown_fix-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Try removing all your fixes and install the 9.4.0 StageXNU kernel (don't forget the matching system.kext). http://######.com/blog/?p=239 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124326-shutdown_fix-problem/#findComment-879553 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miro30 Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 Try removing all your fixes and install the 9.4.0 StageXNU kernel (don't forget the matching system.kext). http://######.com/blog/?p=239 Beerkex'd', It worked for me. I have tried almost everything and Restart, Sleep and Shutdown work! I can't believe it! I have a Asus P5E WS PRO (X38), XFX XXX Alpha Dog 8800 GT OC and a Q6600 cpu. Many, Many thanks!!! Miro Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124326-shutdown_fix-problem/#findComment-880274 Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnullimaus Posted September 9, 2008 Author Share Posted September 9, 2008 Thanks Beerkex'd. I've installed the kenel and it looks much better now, though I did not have too much time for testing in the meantime. The question with running scripts on shutdown remains however, as this is usefull for a number of aspects. BEst regards, Stephan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124326-shutdown_fix-problem/#findComment-884239 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onixs Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 is the shutdown_fix only applicable to vanilla kernel? when using hack (9.4 stagexnu) no need? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124326-shutdown_fix-problem/#findComment-886503 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebit Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 Hi, I used to have the shutdown problem with a vanila 9.4.0 kernel on an ASUS P5E/C2D E8400. I installed the CHUD dev. package & the shutdown fix. Through the CPU Pref. Pane I realized that my CPU was identified as a PIII with Hyperthreading instead as a dualcore one. I tweaked the BIOS with the following settings: CPU & PCI-e Spreading ENABLED Speedstep ENABLED NX ENABLED Everything else DISABLED S3 Sleep Mode Then I got 2 Cores showing up on The CPU Pref.Pane and shutdown worked 10 out of 10. PS. The BIOS Version is 0702. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124326-shutdown_fix-problem/#findComment-886632 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebit Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 BTW, Why would my e8400 show up as a Pentium 3 CPU in the CPU Pref. Pane ? Is there a way to remedy this ? Initially in the "About this Mac" window the CPU was reported as "Unknown" so I had to manually change it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124326-shutdown_fix-problem/#findComment-886797 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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