I just looked at "last" on my system and noticed the same thing. Some reboots and shutdowns appear as crash. Yet I know everything was umounted correctly.
WHY? John -------------------------------------------------------- John Maheu phone (403) 492-2049 University of Alberta email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Economics Edmonton, Alberta Canada, T6G 2H4 -------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Andreas Kahari wrote: > The 'halt' command in Debian behaves as if I typed 'shutdown -h now', > i.e. it sends TERM and KILL to all processes and stops all daemons, and > finally prints "System halted" (if I press the big red button, which I > won't do, this naturally won't happen). I still get "crash"... > > Here's some output from the 'last' command on my system: > andreas tty1 Mon Oct 26 18:53 still logged in > reboot system boot Mon Oct 26 18:53 > root tty1 Sun Oct 25 14:20 - 14:21 (00:00) > reboot system boot Sun Oct 25 14:20 > root tty1 Sun Oct 25 14:14 - crash (00:03) > reboot system boot Sun Oct 25 14:14 > andreas tty2 Sun Oct 25 13:59 - crash (00:12) > andreas tty1 Sun Oct 25 14:53 - crash (00:-41) > reboot system boot Sun Oct 25 14:53 > andreas tty1 Fri Oct 23 20:54 - crash (01:08) > > I notice now that 'reboot' won't cause a "crash", but 'halt' *and* > 'shutdown -h now' will. > > Also, CTRL-ALT-DEL (in inittab: "ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 > -h now") will cause "crash" (I changed this entry in inittab from "-r" > to "-h", which is what I want CTRL-ALT-DEL to do). > > But, as I said, nothing appears to be wrong. Everything works fine, > except for the word "crash"... > > /A > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Andreas K., Department of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ., Sweden > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Contentsofsignaturemaysettleduringshipping. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Lukas Eppler wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Andreas Kahari wrote: > > > > > At work, if I reboot my Solaris workstation, the "last" command reports > > > something like > > > reboot system boot Fri Oct 23 09:54 > > > ... > > > but at home, with Debian 2.0, it simply states that my system has > > > "crashed" at a specific time. > > > > the 'halt' and 'reboot' commands are probably the hardcore method to bring > > the system down. On some distributions (maybe debian too, don't want to > > try out at the moment) 'sbin/shutdown -h now' goes into runlevel 0, goes > > trough /etc/init.d/* stop, halts then kills the remaining processes. this > > is the safe way, and would not 'crash'. I saw once that at the end of the > > shutdown, a 'halt' or 'reboot' is executed at the very end, so on these > > systems, typing 'halt' is like just pressing the power button. > > > > try if your problem goes away by using 'shutdown -r now'. > > > > -- > > Lukas Eppler (godot) > > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
