Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-19 Thread Erick Ocrospoma
Have you tried stopping manually all service you have there? Often happens to me this but it's do to some process that is locked by the kernel, and I'm talking about a debian box that uses NFS and Apache, so check that first. If it's locked by kernel you can't event kill the process, it needs to fr

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Using Debian 6.0. reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing except announcing the shutdown and halt the ssh session that issued the command. I would install systemd and see what that would do. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: (toughed out) Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-18 Thread Marc Auslander
At one point you reported that reboot did nothing. Was that reboot -f or just reboot - which calls shutdown if you're running at 0 or 6 according to the man page. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:31:49AM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > > > On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > >So init knows that you want to shut down/reboot.. > > > >My guess is that one of the "early" init scripts are hanging. > > Thank you for the hint. I followed your test metho

(toughed out) Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Zhang Weiwu wrote: I have exclude another possibility. I am thinking: 1) perhaps the message in /var/log/messages is not produced by init, but by reboot/halt/shutdown, and 2) perhaps init is not invoked at all. So I run 'init 6' as root. This ti

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Thank you for the hint. I followed your test method and the test result show this problem has nothing to do with a hanging service. I have exclude another possibility. I am thinking: 1) perhaps the message in /var/log/messages is not produc

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: So init knows that you want to shut down/reboot.. My guess is that one of the "early" init scripts are hanging. Thank you for the hint. I followed your test method and the test result show this problem has nothing to do with a hanging service.

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 04:29:17PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Using Debian 6.0. reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing except > announcing the shutdown and halt the ssh session that issued the > command. > > But beyond that it really did nothing. Among the things it did not do are: > > - no proce

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Brian wrote: Possibly of help: http://askubuntu.com/questions/7114/why-cant-i-restart-shutdown Thanks for the link but I am pretty sure they are talking about a different problem. The link you provided is among the 100+ search result I found on google that does not

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Brian
On Mon 17 Feb 2014 at 16:29:17 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Using Debian 6.0. reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing except > announcing the shutdown and halt the ssh session that issued the > command. Possibly of help: http://askubuntu.com/questions/7114/why-cant-i-restart-shutdown -- To UNSUBS

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Joe
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:08:34 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 09:01:25AM +, Joe wrote: > > > > Eventually a few more clues confirmed that it was an audio problem, > > and suggested pulseaudio, which I had installed a couple of months > > earlier for a particular experim

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 09:01:25AM +, Joe wrote: > > Eventually a few more clues confirmed that it was an audio problem, and > suggested pulseaudio, which I had installed a couple of months earlier > for a particular experiment. I ripped it out, and sound no longer > worked of course, but my c

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Joe wrote: Do you by any chance have pulseaudio installed? I ask because my sid workstation started doing almost exactly this a few days ago. No. It was a server box. What you said does hint me that if I can access the physical machine there may be some clue on the scre

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Joe
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:29:17 +0800 (CST) Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Using Debian 6.0. reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing except announcing > the shutdown and halt the ssh session that issued the command. > > But beyond that it really did nothing. Among the things it did not do > are: > > - no process