I did this: cat messages | grep shutdown
but it reveals nothing useful in regards to the problem, nor does the rest of the file. The only messages listed at shutdown time are: Mar 6 20:15:13 greengoblin shutdown[3244]: shutting down for system reboot Mar 6 20:15:21 greengoblin kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. Mar 6 20:15:21 greengoblin kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating. Mar 6 20:15:22 greengoblin exiting on signal 15 Can the shutdown not be logged in some other, more detailed way? Gratefully, landhaj ----- Original Message ---- From: Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2007 9:26:33 PM Subject: Re: Raid shuts down uncleanly? Land Haj wrote: > Thank you for your reply! > > Today, I've dpkg-reconfigured mdadm. It had all md-devices listed as > necessary for root, and so I changed it so that only md0 (where root is) > is listed as necessary. This for some reason got rid of the message > saying that swap (md1) was busy. But md0 and md2 are still not unmounted. > > I've been trying to find the shutdown log, but I've failed. Is it > supposed to be in wtmp? If so, how do I read it -- it's binary. > > The end of the shutdown messages are displayed so fast and then blanked > out so that I have no time to see them all. I finally managed to catch a > few of them with my camera (!), and this is what is said, among other > things: > > * It can't create the /etc/mtab log file > * It can't create the /lib/init/rw/.mdadm directory > > Both are because the file system is read-only, but I do not know if they > are normal messages or related to my issue somehow. > > The rest is only a repetition of "md0 still in use", etc. > > If someone can instruct me in how to log the shutdown properly I'll post > the log here to see if anyone can help. > > Thanks for helping! > > /landhaj > > ----- Original Message ---- <--snipped--> Check the file /var/log/messages, searching for the word 'shutdown' and see if there's anything there that's helpful. Otherwise, I have no other suggestions for you. Bob ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367
