[Discuss] The system that won't die

Alan Clemens alanclemens at shawcable.com
Fri Apr 6 13:59:30 PDT 2007


Does anyone here have V-Gear?  And/or who knows how it works?  i.e.  
is it a good product?

Alan

On 4-Apr-07, at 12:14 PM, 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]
> -- 
> Peter Scott
> Pacific Systems Design Technologies
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