Re: Shutdown Problem

2012-10-08 Thread Brian
On Mon 08 Oct 2012 at 10:27:05 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Debian 6.0.6 (64 bit)/KDE 4.4.5 > > For some reason when I shutdown the system, either as a user or as > root, the process hangs on: > > Currently running process (pstree): > > The only recourse I seem to have is to hit the reset

Shutdown Problem

2012-10-08 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
Debian 6.0.6 (64 bit)/KDE 4.4.5 For some reason when I shutdown the system, either as a user or as root, the process hangs on: Currently running process (pstree): The only recourse I seem to have is to hit the reset button. Reinstalling psmisc did not solve the problem. Assistance in solvi

shutdown problem in combination with autofs/NFS

2011-08-10 Thread rog7993
Hello, occassionally our Debian 6 boxes don't shutdown. The shutdown process hangs forever with the last messages: Turning off quotas:...Checking for running unattended-upgrades: I assume, I found the reason for this issue, but no solution. Our linux computers mount some directories via NFS. T

Re: Shutdown problem -- cron job related?

2010-05-09 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 18:42, David Baron wrote: > >> At certain times, seems Friday noontime, I am unable to shutdown the > >> system. Instead of the usual scripts to killing all processes, > unmounting > >> everything and will now halt, goodby, I get: > >> > >> process running pstree (or somet

Re: Shutdown problem -- cron job related?

2010-05-09 Thread David Baron
>> At certain times, seems Friday noontime, I am unable to shutdown the >> system. Instead of the usual scripts to killing all processes, unmounting >> everything and will now halt, goodby, I get: >> >> process running pstree (or something like that) >> shutdown aborted >> >> At this point, th

Re: Shutdown problem -- cron job related

2010-05-08 Thread Zoran Kolic
> At certain times, seems Friday noontime, I am unable to shutdown the system. > Instead of the usual scripts to killing all processes, unmounting everything > and will now halt, goodby, I get: > process running pstree (or something like that) > shutdown aborted > At this point, the system (or at

Re: Shutdown problem -- cron job related?

2010-05-08 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 01:22, David Baron wrote: > At certain times, seems Friday noontime, I am unable to shutdown the > system. > Instead of the usual scripts to killing all processes, unmounting > everything > and will now halt, goodby, I get: > > process running pstree (or something like that

Shutdown problem -- cron job related?

2010-05-08 Thread David Baron
At certain times, seems Friday noontime, I am unable to shutdown the system. Instead of the usual scripts to killing all processes, unmounting everything and will now halt, goodby, I get: process running pstree (or something like that) shutdown aborted At this point, the system (or at least any

Re: lvm + dm-crypt = shutdown problem (mount: / is busy)

2008-03-06 Thread Maximilian Gass
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:17:56AM +0200, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: > And why doesn't it first unmount root fs and then disable the LV? I guess > the answer to this is that root fs is not unmounted but rather remounted > read-only, so it would fail again... Is that it? (I am relatively new to > l

Re: lvm + dm-crypt = shutdown problem (mount: / is busy)

2008-03-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:17:56AM +0200, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: > Maximilian Gass wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 03:17:41PM +0200, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: >> >>> I am running debian testing, and I am experiencing lately this >>> (hopefully) non-destructive problem: >>> >> This probl

Re: lvm + dm-crypt = shutdown problem (mount: / is busy)

2008-03-05 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Maximilian Gass wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 03:17:41PM +0200, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: I am running debian testing, and I am experiencing lately this (hopefully) non-destructive problem: This problem is non-destructive and normal. Now, this 'Can't deactivate volume group', always

Re: lvm + dm-crypt = shutdown problem (mount: / is busy)

2008-03-04 Thread Maximilian Gass
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 03:17:41PM +0200, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: > I am running debian testing, and I am experiencing lately this (hopefully) > non-destructive problem: This problem is non-destructive and normal. > Now, this 'Can't deactivate volume group', always happened, and I guess it > is

lvm + dm-crypt = shutdown problem (mount: / is busy)

2008-02-27 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Hello everybody! I am running debian testing, and I am experiencing lately this (hopefully) non-destructive problem: During shutdown I get: -- Αsking all remaining processes to terminate... done Killing all remaining processes... failed ... Deactivating swap... done Unmounting local

Re: shutdown problem : acpi_power_off freeze

2007-11-09 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Friday 09 November 2007 09:36, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:32:45PM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > I'm using 2.6.18-5-686 > > Do you reckon I should upgrade ? > > If you are running stable you could try a newer kernel from > backports.org > > Regards, > Andrei Indeed i

Re: shutdown problem : acpi_power_off freeze

2007-11-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:32:45PM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > I'm using 2.6.18-5-686 > Do you reckon I should upgrade ? If you are running stable you could try a newer kernel from backports.org Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albe

Re: shutdown problem : acpi_power_off freeze

2007-11-08 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 19:54, Giorgos Pallas wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 12:28:09PM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > >> Hello to all, > >> > >> when I shutdown my computer it doesn't turn off but freeze with the > >> message 'acpi_power_off called'. > >> Howeve

Re: shutdown problem : acpi_power_off freeze

2007-11-07 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 12:28:09PM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > >> Hello to all, >> >> when I shutdown my computer it doesn't turn off but freeze with the >> message 'acpi_power_off called'. >> However the shutdown was working before I re-config my ALSA sounds (via

Re: shutdown problem : acpi_power_off freeze

2007-11-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 12:28:09PM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello to all, > > when I shutdown my computer it doesn't turn off but freeze with the > message 'acpi_power_off called'. > However the shutdown was working before I re-config my ALSA sounds (via > alsaconf) and indeed I have a v

shutdown problem : acpi_power_off freeze

2007-11-04 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello to all, when I shutdown my computer it doesn't turn off but freeze with the message 'acpi_power_off called'. However the shutdown was working before I re-config my ALSA sounds (via alsaconf) and indeed I have a vague remember reading something in the past like acpi has / have some problem

re: shutdown problem

2006-12-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
Apparently debian tries to use acpi by default and I suspect your bios may be too old. You might try acpi=force lapic as two boot parameters on the kernel lines in menu.lst. After that's done try aptitude dist-upgrade as root and when that's finished try shutdown -h now and power off the syste

Re: shutdown problem

2000-12-27 Thread Jack
Many thanks to people who replied. Yes, removing /etc/shutdown.allow helps. I put a username in that file, the user I log in for everyday's working. dont know why it caused the problem. I also found a symptom as well: `who` did not return anything. I think I am going to use sudo to shutdow

Re: shutdown problem

2000-12-27 Thread Dean
Hi Jack: I had the same problem. I found not to use a location in /etc/shutdown.allow but only the user's name. hth Dean Jack wrote: > > hi all: > > it used to work well. I followed someone's suggestion and changed > Ctrl-Alt-Del to shutdown the machine. Now I got this error: > > shutdown:

Re: shutdown problem

2000-12-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 10:36:54PM -0500, Jack wrote: > hi all: > > it used to work well. I followed someone's suggestion and changed > Ctrl-Alt-Del to shutdown the machine. Now I got this error: > > shutdown: no authorized users logged in > > which is not true. What could be wrong? rm -f

Re: shutdown problem

2000-12-26 Thread Rob Hudson
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now > On 20001226.2310, ktb said ... > > On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 10:36:54PM -0500, Jack wrote: > > hi all: > > > > it used to work well. I followed someone's suggestion and changed > > Ctrl-Alt-Del to shutdown the machine. Now I got this error: > >

Re: shutdown problem

2000-12-26 Thread ktb
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 10:36:54PM -0500, Jack wrote: > hi all: > > it used to work well. I followed someone's suggestion and changed > Ctrl-Alt-Del to shutdown the machine. Now I got this error: > > shutdown: no authorized users logged in > > which is not true. What could be wrong? >

shutdown problem

2000-12-26 Thread Jack
hi all: it used to work well. I followed someone's suggestion and changed Ctrl-Alt-Del to shutdown the machine. Now I got this error: shutdown: no authorized users logged in which is not true. What could be wrong? thanks!

Re: shutdown problem

2000-10-03 Thread scott worley
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:53:23PM +, stefan goeman wrote: > Hello, > > I notice a strange behaviour when I want to shutdown my PC. > When I do shutdown -h now it shuts down linux as it should. > But when I then turn of the Power my PC restart after one or two seconds. > > I have the same be

shutdown problem

2000-10-03 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, I notice a strange behaviour when I want to shutdown my PC. When I do shutdown -h now it shuts down linux as it should. But when I then turn of the Power my PC restart after one or two seconds. I have the same behaviour with WinNT (i have a dual boot system) but i did not care about that

Re: Shutdown problem (fwd)

2000-02-11 Thread paul
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Suresh said, > I tried /sbin/halt and /sbin/poweroff in /etc/inittab > > The actual line in /etc/inittab at present is > > ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/halt > Use "shutdown -h now" see "man shutdown" -ptw

Re: Shutdown problem (fwd)

2000-02-11 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
I tried /sbin/halt and /sbin/poweroff in /etc/inittab The actual line in /etc/inittab at present is ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/halt Suresh > What is the shutdown command syntax that you are using? > John Foster > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ# 19460173 >

Re: Shutdown problem (fwd)

2000-02-10 Thread John Foster
"Suresh Kumar.R" wrote: > > Hi > > I have installed debian 2.0 in a IBM netfinity 3000 machine. My problem is > when the machine is halted, sometimes it hangs after the message > > Shutting down cron > > Any ideas of what to do? -- What is the shu

Shutdown problem (fwd)

2000-02-10 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Hi I have installed debian 2.0 in a IBM netfinity 3000 machine. My problem is when the machine is halted, sometimes it hangs after the message Shutting down cron Any ideas of what to do? Pl send a cc of the reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suresh ---

Re: startup/shutdown problem

2000-01-27 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > During shutdown process, I SOMETIME obtain the following error message : > > (A) "can't umount /dev/hda3, '/' is busy". I'm not sure what would cause this, but it can happen if the init scripts try to close down the root partition before all the p

startup/shutdown problem

2000-01-27 Thread lorenzo . zampese
During shutdown process, I SOMETIME obtain the following error message : (A) "can't umount /dev/hda3, '/' is busy". When I boot Linux again I obtain : (B) "/dev/hda3 has reached maximum mount count, check forced..." and It seems Linux is scanning my /dev/hda3 partition. At the end : (C)

debian 2.0 shutdown problem

2000-01-15 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Hi, I installed debian 2.0 successfully. But when I tried to shutdown, the machine apparently hangs with the following line. Stopping periodic command scheduler: cron. It has happened to me with another debian installation also. On some installations, it has gone without any problems. Any ideas

Shutdown problem

1997-08-16 Thread Matt . Benson
I have a quick question that I'm embarassed to ask. How do you properly shutdown? A few days ago I could shutdown completely with no problem. After installed PPP, XWindows, and a few other odds and ends, shutdown doesn't complete shutting down. It stops at "Enter root