[Discuss] The system that won't die

[David Bronaugh]

Peter Scott wrote:
> 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.
>
Check if /dev/initctl exists...
prw------- 1 root root 0 Apr  2 10:14 /dev/initctl

That's all I can think of.

David