I also have had this problem on a specific DC. It has an intel
motherboard with integrated NIC and adaptec RAID controller. I don't
know if that has anything to do with it, but it may. 

You have any similar HW in your machine?



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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thommes,
Michael M.
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 7:56 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] rebooting a patched, but stubborn DC

Hi Susan,
     Thanks for the response.  No UPS issues.  Checked the services
remotely and didn't find anything unusual.  The DC did finally reboot on
its own shortly after I sent out my first message - about 2 hours after
the original patching and message saying it wanted to reboot and I
clicked OK.  The event logs showed nothing of any consequence, just a
big (2 hour) gap in the system event log entries (between the entry
saying it initiated shutdown and the entry saying the system was coming
back up).   The security log showed no gaps at all.  Am I the only one
that sees this kind of behavior on W2K3/SP1 servers?  I normally don't
use the "/console" switch when I TS in (eg, mstsc.exe /console).  I
wonder if that could speed the process up.
 
Mike Thommes

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Susan Bradley, CPA
aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Sent: Sat 10/15/2005 3:53 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] rebooting a patched, but stubborn DC



APC UPS's and you don't have the latest ver on there?
HP with a UPS?

Can you get into services and see if something is 'stopping'?

Got any ILO ability there [or suitable other remote techniques]?

Thommes, Michael M. wrote:

>So I have remotely (TS connection) applied the latest Windows patches
to
>one of my DCs.  Patches went on fine.  Said it needed to reboot.  I
>clicked "Restart".  And two hours later, it still has not rebooted, but
>it did terminate the TS session.  I have tried to "kick it" via a
>"shutdown /f /r" command from another DC.  Still no luck.  Issue same
>command remotely with the big Kahuna account, and it says a shutdown is
>in progress.  It appears to still be serving up clients, e.g., no
>discernable ill effects.  I have seen this periodically in the past
with
>other servers.  Anyone have any comments/thoughts are this irritating,
>weekend <sigh> activity?  TIA!
>
>Mike Thommes
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