[Discuss] The system that won't die

[pw]

Peter Scott wrote:
> 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]



what does:

init 0

do?
(Should halt the system)


Peter