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. snip I would install systemd and see what that would do. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-19 Thread Erick Ocrospoma
February 2014 11:32, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: 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. snip I would install systemd and see what that would do. Hugo

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 method and the

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

reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Zhang Weiwu
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 are killed or terminated. None of mysql, apache, cron daemons are shut

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Joe
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:29:17 +0800 (CST) Zhang Weiwu zhangwe...@realss.com 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

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

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

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Joe
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:08:34 +1300 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz 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

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

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 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 process

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 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

(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