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From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
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To: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>
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Subject: Re: shutdown now probs
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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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