[Discuss] The system that won't die

[Steven Kurylo]

> merely send out the initial "system going down..." message (where
> they're supposed to) and then return without anything else happening.

What does the log say?  For instance on my RH machine
/var/log/messages says things like:

init: Switching to runlevel: 0
nfs: nfsd shutdown succeeded
snmpd: snmpd shutdown succeeded
xinetd[1188]: Exiting...

And so on for every service on the machine.  I'm wondering if you have
a service which is kernel related (misbehaving module?) and so its
hanging the shutdown process.

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Steven Kurylo