From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 18 12:56:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D862C37BA3F for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 12:56:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from johnmpurser@home.com) Received: from C37259A ([24.9.57.64]) by mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <20000218205626.KOTG8819.mail.rdc1.wa.home.com@C37259A> for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 12:56:26 -0800 Reply-To: From: "John Purser" To: Subject: shutdown now doesn't work, some processes would not die Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 12:56:24 -0800 Message-ID: <000701bf7a52$9e715e40$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Newbie with another question When I go to shut down my FreeBSD box (New installation, 3.4 CD media, Novice install, User distribution) I log on as root and enter "shutdown now". The system announces it's time for shutdown by root, pauses for a minute, then comes back with this error message: some processes would not die; ps axl advised and then it asks me where the shell is. If I go back in and run ps axl the only things I see running (aside from my shell and ps) are demons including mgetty. I assume mgetty is the problem and I send this kill signal: kill -9 PID where PID is the PID of mgetty from ps. There is no error message or confirmation but if I run ps axl again then mgetty will still be running. shutdown -h now gives the same error message but shuts down the machine anyway. QUESTIONS: Why can't I shut down mgetty? Can anyone give me some idea of which start up file is loading mgetty in the first place? Is it bad for the system to use shutdown -h now when it gives an error message? Thanks for the help, John Purser To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message