I think what you are describing is being dropped into single-user mode by
(probably) init in response to some error. The trouble is that the
clear-screen is causing you to lose the opportunity to see the error.
So ... is the actual message you last see "Unmounting filesystems..."? If
so, do you see "done." before the screen clears or not? On the guess that
you do not, the system is encountering a problem when trying to umount
filesystems. Possibilities are:
a bad filesystem (do a manual fsck)
a missing filesystem (e.g., you're removed a mounted floppy)
Part of the difficulty here is that the details of the shutdown procedure
are a bit distribution specific, and you haven't said which Linux
distribution you are using. The details of this part of the shutdown
procedure are controlled by a script (on my Debian potato systems, it's
/etc/init.d/umountfs). You might find the corresponding script on your
system and see if you can identify what it is doing when it fails.
At 08:24 PM 4/3/00 -0500, Brad Boeckmann wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I've got a shutdown problem. Whenever I shutdown my system, it goes
>through a process of sending kill signals, then unmounting devices and then
>the screen clears and a prompt that looks something like "bash!#" shows up
>on the screen. If I enter a shutdown command at this prompt, the system
>gives a screen full of garbage text. If I turn off the power, the next
>time I enter Linux, I am told that hdb wasn't cleanly unmounted and a check
>is forced.
>
>On the other very comparable machine I've got, it goes through the shutdown
>process and then tells me I can turn off the power.
>
>I don't know what's going on and I'm not exactly sure how to troubleshoot
>this.
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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