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- Organisation: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany
- Date: Thursday, 13 Aug 1992 13:29:26 MES
- From: Ulrich Pegelow <PEGELOW@DMSWWU1A.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Message-ID: <92226.132926PEGELOW@DMSWWU1A.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del in linux, doesn't work.
- References: <1992Aug4.225341.9785@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de>
- <1992Aug6.174753.11908@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- <1992Aug12.025408.10612@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <2172@fnnews.fnal.gov>
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- In article <2172@fnnews.fnal.gov> rohrer@fncrd6.fnal.gov (Keith Rohrer)
- writes:
- >I have a 386/40 Forex with AMI BIOS and I *do* often have rebooting problems.
- >Sometimes reboot/shutdown/halt work, sometimes they just sit there forever.
- >It's more likely that C-A-D will succeed if I'm logged in on the current
- >VC than if I'm not.
-
- Are you sometimes using MGR as root? MGR leaves a junk entry in file
- /etc/utmp (the file where all currently logged-in users are kept).
- This entry states that root is still logged in on /dev/ttyp0.
- When you want to shut your system down reboot/shutdown/halt will try
- to write a warning message to the control terminals of all users.
- As /dev/ttyp0 is not opened for reading any more shutdown will block
- when it tries to open /dev/ttyp0 for writing. However you should be
- able to interrupt shutdown by pressing CTRL-C at least.
-
- Ulrich
- pegelow@dmswwu1a.uni-muenster.de
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