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From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
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Subject: Re: shutdown command
To: dbabler@Rigel.orionsys.com (Dave Babler)
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 13:20:37 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: netnology@psinet.net.au, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970825104024.1538C-100000@Rigel.orionsys.com> from Dave Babler at "Aug 25, 97 10:42:07 am"
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In a previous message, Dave Babler said:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 netnology@psinet.net.au wrote:
> 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I have a problem using freebsd 2.2.2 running on an AMD 586 133 chip.
> > Everything works fine except for restarting the machine.  The command
> > "shutdown -r now" used to force a reboot, seems to be working, sync's the
> > disks and then does nothing.  I leave it for about 20-25 minutes and still
> > it won't restart.  The "shutdown now" command works fine, but now with the
> > "-r" option.  This used to work when using 2.0.5, but since the upgrade -
> > nothing.
> > 
> > Regards
> > Craig Beasland
> 
> I am having exactly the same problem here (and with reboot as well)
> running 2.2-STABLE on an Intel 486DX2-66 box. It worries me because it
> also means the system cannot reboot itself if it has to.
> 
> -Dave


I had problems like this in the past. I think I figured out that the apache 
server was hanging. I wrote a script to kill httpd first then do the 
shutdown.


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