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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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