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Date:      Mon, 3 Mar 2003 13:41:22 +1000 (EST)
From:      Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
To:        Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: shutdown now probs
Message-ID:  <20030303133952.M50117-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20030301191450.GA16858@pooh.nagual.st>

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On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:

> I have an annoying problem. Whenever I want to go to single user mode
> and run "shutdown now" the system freezes. Nothing happens; I one
> waited for ten minutes or more. Sometimes toggling "ctrl+c" or "enter,
> enter, enter" smees to work but I never see when exactly.
>
> Something does not go right I suppose, but WHAT ??
> My system: FreeBSD-4.7R
>

Make sure you are viewing virtual console 0 by pressning <alt-f1>.

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 :{ andyf@speednet.com.au

        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
 http://www.speednet.com.au/




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