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I've been running beta 1 64 bit for the past 2-3 days continuesly and today I went to shutdown the system and received this error, which stop the shutdown process at this point.

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Stopping boot logger: failed
Broadcast message from root, stopping display manager


At this point is when it hangs. I could press Enter key and it would drop down a line but nothing else. I left it like this for about an hour and no change.

I'm using a HP Compaq DX5150 AMD 64 system, with 512mb of ram and ATI Radeon Xpress 200M. I'm using the open source video driver.

Not sure if it's hardware or software issue, though another way I can test it is boot into Win7 and see if it does the same thing!

That looks familiar - happened on several new Mandriva releases. Now, with Mageia, I have a similar problem on my desktop (Dell Optiplex 755) - no problem on my laptop:

- "Please standby ..."
- "Restarting system."
- Freeze
Happens about 9 out of 10 times, 1 / 10 OK.

Was explained as a hardware-specific problem when Linux hands over to the bios, in Mandriva times the problem normally got resolved after some time. I had considered this as 2nd priority and waited for somebody else to file a bug (given the randomness, it might just be a timing or a racing problem).