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- From: krouth@slee01.srl.ford.com (Kevin Routh)
- Subject: Re: "broken pipe" on shutdown/reboot/halt???
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- Organization: Ford Motor Company Scientific Research Labs, Dearborn, MI
- References: <1992Nov5.153850.9153@cs.umb.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 12:50:20 GMT
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- cteague@ra.cs.umb.edu (Charles F. Teague II) writes:
- :
- : 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,
-
- Yes, mine does the same thing. What I do is log out all my pseudo terms
- and then log into one as user "sync" once or twice. I then give the
- three finger salute (Ctrl-Alt-Del) and it reboots. I assume this is
- safe because it syncs the filesystems. I think your /etc/passwd file
- has a user named "sync" with no password which uses the sync command as
- it's shell. If not, it's easy to set it up.
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