[Discuss] The system that won't die

[David Frey]

If I were you, I would be more concerned about whether the system is
going to come up again than how to shut it down.  Just out of curiosity,
why haven't you upgraded to Fedora Core 6?

David


On 4/4/2007, "Peter Scott" <Peter at PSDT.com> wrote:

>My Fedora Core 5 is in a state where it won't shutdown.  Everything
>else is apparently working fine, but the commands
>
>	poweroff
>	telinit 0
>	shutdown -h now
>	reboot
>	kill -9 1
>
>merely send out the initial "system going down..." message (where
>they're supposed to) and then return without anything else happening.
>
>My console keyboard had been in a weird state thanks to my KVM I think,
>and while I since have accidentally fixed it with a control-alt-del, I
>still want to know why the system won't shut down.  The X server is not
>running.  The ps entry for init is:
>
>root         1  0.0  0.1   1988   688 ?        S     2006   0:09 init [3]
>--
>Peter Scott
>Pacific Systems Design Technologies
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