On 03/30 06:02, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 4:36 PM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 3:56 PM, <tu...@posteo.de> wrote: > >> > >> just a minute before I wanted to shutdown my Linux box...and... > >> shutdown: /run/initctl: No such file or directory > > > > See bug 651990. https://bugs.gentoo.org/651990 > > > > Either upgrade to sysvinit-2.89-r1, or run the following command > > before rebooting or changing runlevels. > > > > ln -s /dev/initctl /run/initctl > > 2.89?! A new version after so many years! > > Looking at the upstream changelog: > > Added Robert Millan's Debian patch to use /run/initctl as the named pipe > for communicating. This works around a limitation on the kFreeBSD branch > which prevents us from using /dev/initctl for pipes. >
Hi, thanks for all the help. An update this morning has fixed the problem...but good to know the backgrounds and workarounds, if anything like that happens again... ;) Cheers! Meino
