I didn't manually touch the initctl file but I just checked the timestamp and it was altered right about the time I did the kernel recompile. Is this initctl unique to each system? If not, I was thinking of just copying one over from a machine that does shutdown properly. Should I refrain?
-----Original Message----- From: Miquel van Smoorenburg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 4:59 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: shutdown -r now won't work In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It does nothing. Just as if I typed nothing at all. The system doesn't hang; >I'm still able to use it normally. But it doesn't reboot. I'm root too. I >just did a kernel recompile but I've done a couple successful ones recently >and I've gotten pretty good at it so I don't think I messed up anything >there. Any ideas? Thanks. Did you remove, rename, recreate, or mess around with /dev/initctl? That's a pipe that programs such as shutdown use to talk to init. Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
