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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: crimson cannot halt/reboot
- Message-ID: <s6mekko@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Nov10.115333.781@artcom.de>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:11:05 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Nov10.115333.781@artcom.de>, chris@artcom.de (Christian Hoefig) writes:
- > IRIX 4.0.5, SGI crimson,
- > kaufhof 84_> uname -a
- > IRIX kaufhof 4.0.4 03241739 IP17
- >
- > Shutdown and reboot don't work.
- >
- > Executing shutdown works only to the point, where
- > /etc/init 0 is called. this should start /etc/rc0, which
- > completes the shutdown, basically per killall.
- > Executing /etc/rc0 "by hand" works, but /etc/init 0
- > simply seems to do nothing. No hints in system log files.
- > exit status of /etc/init 0 is 0.
- >
- > Even after reinstalling IRIX, the effect remained. Of course,
- > /etc/reboot won't do either. We talked to our SGI man,
- > said he never heard of such a thing before.
- >
- > Any ideasm ? We will reformat the disk and reinstall, if
- > nothing else works.
-
-
- The most common cause of shutdown not working is that /etc/rc2 is
- still waiting for /etc/rc2.d/S95autoconfig to finish waiting for
- lboot to finish waiting for the operator to answer the "automatically
- reconfigure the operating system" question. If this is the cause,
- then `killall lboot` should break things loose.
-
- Unless the dates of files in /usr/sysgen/* are crazy (i.e. in the future),
- simply answering the question "y" once will fix the problem permanently.
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-