Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 11:33:40 +0100 From: Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org> To: Matias Surdi <matiassurdi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shutdown not shutting down :-( Message-ID: <43F84984.8040201@orchid.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <dt9h0g$7tl$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <dt9h0g$7tl$1@sea.gmane.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Matias Surdi wrote: > Hi, Linux-user, FreeBSD-newbie posting here. > > I've a recent installation of FreeBSD, and when I do > > # shutdown now > > It starts the shutdown process but it hangs promting for the shell path. > > I think that this could be something related to the order in which > partitions are unmounted. > > Any idea? Hi Matias, no, everything is OK. 'shutdown now' brings the system to 'single user' state. If you want to restart or power down the machine have a look at man 8 shutdown (especially '-p' or '-r' options). Also: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-shutdown.html Best regards, Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org> GPGKey: http://www.orchid.homeunix.org/carlos/gpg/0x06E09309.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD+EmOezeoPAwGIYsRAhGtAKCWDlSACoSZpHO1UNVT9BfSMYkhWwCgnEB4 kTca86wGawstc0MUDbWJ5kU= =NiUf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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