Can't shutdown

Post by **ayu** » 22 Jul 2008, 12:30

I'm running Ubuntu server virtually, but I can't seem to shutdown like I usually do.

shutdown now or shutdown 0 doesn't work, just takes me to a recovery menu.

Something new? ^^ and how do I shutdown?

uid0 · Post by **uid0** » 22 Jul 2008, 13:46

Hmmm.... never happend to me something similar, the most closer was issuing the shutdown command and the PC didn't turn the power off but that was because the APM/APCI support, or the lack of it

Did the system was updated or changed in any way recently? (regarding to init processes)

Other commands you can use to turn off the PC are:

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$ poweroff
$ halt
$ init 0

poweroff is acctually an alias of 'shutdonw -h now' but your system should have it and is something you could try to see if there's a problem of the shutdown command, in the worst cases, init 0 shouldn't fail no matter what ^^

Post by **ayu** » 23 Jul 2008, 15:59

yeah init 0 worked, but getting another problem on Debian now with the shutdown command. check the link below

http://binarykitten.com/files/vmerror.png

G-Brain · Post by **G-Brain** » 23 Jul 2008, 16:08

cats wrote:yeah init 0 worked, but getting another problem on Debian now with the shutdown command. check the link below

http://binarykitten.com/files/vmerror.png

It's running init 1. That shouldn't be happening... how did you run shutdown?

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alias shutdown="init 0"

But that would only hide the problem...

Post by **ayu** » 24 Jul 2008, 01:50

G-Brain wrote:how did you run shutdown?

shutdown now and/or shutdown 0

Post by **bad_brain** » 24 Jul 2008, 03:53

hm, anything to find in syslog?

Still_Learning · Post by **Still_Learning** » 24 Jul 2008, 05:29

hold the power button down for 10 to 20 seconds

j/k I have never heard of a machine not powering down, you say your running it virtually with ubuntu? what virtual software VMWare?

uid0 · Post by **uid0** » 24 Jul 2008, 08:27

holding the power button like that won't resolve the problem either, just hide it, and also, it won't be a clean shutdown which isn't something to recommend if you have available methods to do a clean shutdown like the alias g-brain mentioned.

when you use shutdown, the system reads the setting from the v init, I use slackware so don't know how accurate it will be what I'm gonna say but, shutdown calls /etc/rc.d/rc.0 which is a sym link to rc.6, this rc check if is called as 0 or as 6 being 0 poweroff and 6 reboot, in anyother case the system shouldn't do nothing except to print an echo of usage.

My guess is that there's some misconfiguration in the rc.6 or init 6 level, shutdown is a binary file so unless it has a bug in it, then is a problem of the files that shutdown is calling