Re: Reboot of 5.2.1

2004-04-02 Thread Jorn Argelo
On Thursday 01 April 2004 00:42, Doug Hardie wrote:
 I am testing 5.2.1 in preperation for moving production servers
 eventually from 4.6 to 5.x.  Most of the issues I have figured out, but
 there is one that I cannot get to work - shutdown -r now.  Rebooting
 dies consistently.  With the GENERIC kernel I get the message:

 Rebooting...
 Keyboard reset did not work, attempting CPU shutdown

 In NOTES is a dexcription of BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET so I added that and
 rebuilt the kernel.  Now all I get is the Rebooting... line and nothing
 more.  Granted the system I am using for testing is not at all like the
 production hardware, but rebooting worked fine on 4.6 with this system.
   I am very reluctant to convert any production systems unless I can be
 sure they can successfully be rebooted without having a person on-site.
   These machines are all unattended and quite far away.  Is there a
 workaround for this issue?


 -- Doug

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What about the reboot command? Doesn't that work either?
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Reboot of 5.2.1

2004-03-31 Thread Doug Hardie
I am testing 5.2.1 in preperation for moving production servers 
eventually from 4.6 to 5.x.  Most of the issues I have figured out, but 
there is one that I cannot get to work - shutdown -r now.  Rebooting 
dies consistently.  With the GENERIC kernel I get the message:

Rebooting...
Keyboard reset did not work, attempting CPU shutdown
In NOTES is a dexcription of BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET so I added that and 
rebuilt the kernel.  Now all I get is the Rebooting... line and nothing 
more.  Granted the system I am using for testing is not at all like the 
production hardware, but rebooting worked fine on 4.6 with this system. 
 I am very reluctant to convert any production systems unless I can be 
sure they can successfully be rebooted without having a person on-site. 
 These machines are all unattended and quite far away.  Is there a 
workaround for this issue?

-- Doug

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