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- From: cteague@ra.cs.umb.edu (Charles F. Teague II)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: "broken pipe" on shutdown/reboot/halt???
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.153850.9153@cs.umb.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 15:38:50 GMT
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston
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- I've just recently started up X, from SLS0.98, and while installing, I
- had the mouse setting wrong, so it locked up on me. After trying Cntl-Alt-Del
- and several other likely key sequences (and many random ones...), I gave up
- and powered down.
-
- Now, when I try to shutdown linux, I get the normal shutdown output
- up to the point where it should say "Now you can turn off the power".
- Instead of that, I get "broken pipe", and the system is still active (ie,
- no reboot/halt/shutdown) I thought I might have messed up these commands,
- so I reinstalled them from the SLS disk, base.taz. No luck. I have tried
- 'fsck' and 'fsck -v', but neither report errors. (Does anyone have man pages
- on fsck? I have no idea what options to specify...)
-
- I assume that by powering down without a normal shutdown sequence, I
- somehow invalidated something, probably my filesystem, so that the halt/
- shutdown/reboot commands no longer work. The wierd thing is that these 3
- seem to be the only ones affected (Yes, I know they're probably all accessing
- the same something, so it's no coincidence that if one of these was affected,
- the other 2 would also be, but nothing else on my system seems messed up).
-
- Has this happened to anyone else? Can anyone tell me how it happened?
- Or better yet, how to fix this?
-
- Thanks mucho in advance,
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- Charles F. Teague II Net:cteague@cs.umb.edu Real:33 Sidney Ave, Lynn MA 01902
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