On Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:04:05 -0500 Brad Spencer <[email protected]> wrote:
> What I am going to suggest assumes you have console access. If you do > not, then it may be more challenging. > > On the console as root: > > kill -15 1 - this will bring you down to single user > umount -a - this will unmount as many of the filesystems as it can. > In particular the root filesystem won't be unmounted with this. > poweroff - or equivalent... shuts the system down Thanks, I did indeed have console access so I followed this, with the change that I sent a SIGTERM to nfsd and its sibling processes and unmounted the data partitions (and disabled swap) before sending the SIGTERM to init. I was under the impression that you had to disable the raid with raidctl but could not find a trace of that in the missing rc scripts so I let it be and let poweroff handle the rest. The system made a 'thunk' sound when it powered off which was unnerving -- I expected to hear the hdds spin down a few seconds before the actual power cut. Maybe I should've used 'halt' instead and cut power manually. But I guess it worked out all right in the end.
