[Discuss] The system that won't die

[Peter Scott]

At 01:05 PM 4/4/2007, pw wrote:
>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?

Same as telinit 0 above: nothing.

>(Should halt the system)

Yes, it should :-)
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