--- Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue 03 Jun 03, 1:26 PM, Jim Angstadt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > --- Rob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 12:32:57PM -0700, > > > Angstadt wrote: > > > > > > > > --- Jim Angstadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > --- "Mark K. Kim" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Jim Angstadt > wrote:
<snip> > > Jim > > 1. have you actually looked at your logs yet? Yes. /var/log/messages has 8 "shutdown:" messages. 1 is reboot and 7 are halt. This is in sync with what I've done today, up to the time I looked. > > 2. try sending this guy a private email and ask > him if he ever found the answer to his problem: > http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&th=b3e6ba6021e8a3f2&rnum=7 msg sent. waiting answer. > > 3. see if this helps: > > http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&th=61912e619f4f06af&rnum=30 There were several ideas here. Alas, none helped. Idea 1: /sbin/reboot /sbin/halt /sbin/shutdown All match the description in your cited msg. Idea 2: The halt script seems to end with a command ending in -p (for powerdown). (a poster in cited msg did not have a -p. but when he added one, that was no help.) Idea 3: I'm doing shutdown from runlevel 3 not 5. > > > 4. boot into single user mode. run "halt" > and/or "telinit 0" from the prompt. I'm still researching how to do this. > > 5. become root, then run "halt". shutdown seems normal. ends with 'System halted'. I do a physical power off (holding button for 1-2 seconds) and see more text briefly and then bootup. I repeat the above and the system hangs at "Sending processes the TERM signal...". physical power off. [ please note, I'm aware of the 5 second delay after "Sending...". I've always waited at least a minute; sometimes as long as 30 minutes. Once it's past the 5 sec delay, it's fully hung. ] I repeat the above and system ends with "System halted". A quick power button press yields a brief screen of text and then the system is off. I repeat the above and the system hangs at "Sending processes the TERM signal...". physical power off. I repeat the above and system ends with "System halted". A quick power button press yields a brief screen of text and then the system reboots. [ this is clearly inconsistent, but why? ] > > 6. from the default runlevel, type: > > telinit 1 > > then > > telinit 0 > > see if it hangs when you try to go from 5 to > 1, or if it hangs if you > try to go from 1 to 0. telinit 1 shuts down some processes. the last msg is 'Sending processes the TERM signal...'. Then I get a 'sh-2.05b#' prompt and am NOT able to enter commands. ( This also happened earlier today under a simular situation. ) I do a physical power off. telinit 0 by itself leads to a reboot. > > 7. what was the last administrative thing you > did before the problem > appeared? That would be the -Fr options for shutdown and the fsck options mentioned in my initial post. I realized it should not be relavant here. This box was purchased in Feb 2003. The RH 8.0 install went smoothly. I did some configuration for /etc/hosts and related home network stuff. I tried to get gnome-pilot working, including a usb change to the kernel. Then the -Fr and fsch stuff. Later I mounted some NFS trees from another home box (rh 9.0). I really have not done much with the box. My wife uses it for web sites and yahoo email mainly. --- Thanks to all who have responded today. I'll pick up my shield tomorrow for another round of head-butting. Jim > > pete > > > -- > GPG Instructions: > http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg > GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 > A3B9 1945 67EA 951D > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
