I have an interesting problem. My linux machine won't let me log in as any
user other than root as it says there is a pending shutdown (for a time in
the past!). If I log in as root and try to cancel the shutdown, it says
that it can't get the pid of the running shutdown and I'm still left
stuck.
The machine has never behaved oddly while shutting down and I've never had
to switch it off without running shutdown -h - what have I done wrong? And
how can I let users log in again?
This isn't all that important as I'm the only user but I'm not too keen on
running x as root or having to su all the time. :-)
Any ideas appreciated,
Chris
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