[Discuss] The system that won't die

[Peter Scott]

>Check if /dev/initctl exists...
>prw------- 1 root root 0 Apr  2 10:14 /dev/initctl

Yup (hey, that's news to me):

prw------- 1 root root 0 Apr  4 14:57 /dev/initctl

>As well you could try changing to some other run level.  Assuming
>you're at 5 right now, try 4 or 6.

I assume this ps output means 3?

root         1  0.0  0.1   1988   688 ?        S     2006   0:09 init [3]

But trying to change it with init doesn't make any difference.

It seems I'm not allowed to strace pid 1.

>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.

Hmm, good point.  I am running RAID mirroring, in case that helps, or 
has something to do with the problem.

>Just out of curiosity,
>why haven't you upgraded to Fedora Core 6?

Hadn't felt the urge.  It's been satisfying my needs perfectly well... 
until this.  Do you think I should upgrade?  It's not exposed to the 
outside world.
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