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Title: shutdown: wall reports an error

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shutdown: wall reports an error

Applies to

SuSE Linux: Version 5.2, 1st Edition

Symptom:

During the shutdown of the system (e.g. with the command shutdown -h now) the following error message appears :
wall: /dev/ttyXXX: I/O  error

Cause:

wall writes to all ttys (terminals), that are listet in the file utmp. However old versions of xterm don't remove their entries from this file. As a consequence, it is being tried to write to a tty during shutdown, that isn't used anymore. The result is the above message.

Also every terminal, that wasn't erased from utmp by some other program, will cause the same error message.

Solution:

Get an update for xterm. New versions of this program sign off completely. A new version is available in the package xf86 under the URL ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse_update/S.u.S.E.-5.2/x1/xf86.rpm

If another program caused this error message, you should also get an update for it.

Please note, that this error message is uncritical, so it can also be ignored (not nice !) .

Have fun !

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Keywords: WALL, SHUTDOWN, REBOOT, BOOT, TTY, I/0 ERROR, XTERM

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