[Cbe-oss-dev] PS3 hangs during shutdown

[Geoff Levand]

On 01/03/2010 12:48 PM, Andrea wrote:
> Yesterday for the first time I was able to view the problem "live" (i.e. from the console and not
> via ssh).
> 
> I pressed the power button and the shutdown sequence started.
> But at the end, after something like "please wait while system goes down", nothing else happened.
> What was different this time is that the cursor *was* still blinking (I remember Geoff asking me that).
> Can this be helpful?

Yes, it means the 1st stage kernel is still running,
but hung up.  I guess some driver has hung up while
unloading.

Can you ssh or telnet to the ps3?

What kernel?

Please try using the latest stable (currently linux-2.6.32.2)
with ps3_defconfig from here:

  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/

-Geoff