[Discuss] The system that won't die

[Peter Scott]

At 01:13 PM 4/4/2007, Steven Kurylo wrote:
>>merely send out the initial "system going down..." message (where
>>they're supposed to) and then return without anything else happening.
>
>What does the log say?  For instance on my RH machine
>/var/log/messages says things like:
>
>init: Switching to runlevel: 0
>nfs: nfsd shutdown succeeded
>snmpd: snmpd shutdown succeeded
>xinetd[1188]: Exiting...
>
>And so on for every service on the machine.  I'm wondering if you have
>a service which is kernel related (misbehaving module?) and so its
>hanging the shutdown process.

Good question, I forgot to say I'd looked there.  /var/log/messages:

Apr  4 12:01:49 tweety shutdown[30643]: shutting down for system reboot
Apr  4 12:02:20 tweety shutdown[30649]: shutting down for system reboot
Apr  4 12:03:32 tweety shutdown[30666]: shutting down for system halt
Apr  4 12:03:45 tweety shutdown[30670]: shutting down for system halt
Apr  4 12:06:27 tweety shutdown[30698]: shutting down for system halt
Apr  4 12:07:30 tweety shutdown[30738]: shutting down for system halt

i.e., just the same message that goes out via wall every time I try, 
nothing else.  Is there somewhere else I should look?  This is so weird.


Yeah, I could hit the reset button, but I'm conditioned against 
that.  That sort of thing is for Windoze boxes.

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