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Date:      Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:21:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tenebrae <tenebrae@niceboots.com>
To:        Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: shutdown not completing
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106151520280.82725-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com>
In-Reply-To: <15146.32491.443330.764581@onceler.kciLink.com>

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On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Vivek Khera wrote:

> I have some 4.3-STABLE boxes that sometimes fail to shutdown
> properly.  The uname -a date is "4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #0: Mon
> May 14 16:37:38 EDT 2001" on one of them, for example.
> 
> These are Dell PowerEdge 1550 boxes connected to a Cyclades terminal
> server for the serial consoles.  The BIOS on these boxes is redirected
> to the serial console as well, but that doesn't seem to be the issue.
> 
> What happens is I login via the serial console as myself.  Then I su
> to root and issue a "shutdown now".  All processes get killed it
> seems, and all services go away (nmap shows no open ports, but ping
> answers on both ethernets).  The console then just sits there.  I
> never get the "flushing buffers" messages, nor do I get a prompt for
> entering the password to enter single user mode.

Try shutdown -h now instead.
-h is for halt.
(man shutdown)
								-Tenebrae.



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