[Discuss] The system that won't die

[Peter Scott]

My Fedora Core 5 is in a state where it won't shutdown.  Everything 
else is apparently working fine, but the commands

	poweroff
	telinit 0
	shutdown -h now
	reboot
	kill -9 1

merely send out the initial "system going down..." message (where 
they're supposed to) and then return without anything else happening.

My console keyboard had been in a weird state thanks to my KVM I think, 
and while I since have accidentally fixed it with a control-alt-del, I 
still want to know why the system won't shut down.  The X server is not 
running.  The ps entry for init is:

root         1  0.0  0.1   1988   688 ?        S     2006   0:09 init [3]
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
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