[Discuss] The system that won't die

[Scott Petersen]

> 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]

I have had the same issue in the past. For me it was X not shutting down,
though I suspect it could be another process. Once I did a kill -9 on that
process and it's parents, I was able to shutdown normally.

What other processes are running on your system? Anything suspect in ps -ef?

Cheers
Scott Petersen