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by **Vengly To** » Sun, 08 Jun 1997 04:00:00

Hi all,

This is the first time I've experienced this problem with shutting
down Linux. In the past, I've always logged out of the current account
and then at the login: prompt, do a CTRL-ALT-DEL (the computer reboots
itself, etc.). However, now all it says is "shutdown is running" or
something similar and nothing happens.

Can someone tell me what is wrong, or direct me to a FAQ?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Veng-Ly Tong

by **Vengly To** » Sun, 08 Jun 1997 04:00:00

>This is the first time I've experienced this problem with shutting
>down Linux. In the past, I've always logged out of the current account
>and then at the login: prompt, do a CTRL-ALT-DEL (the computer reboots
>itself, etc.). However, now all it says is "shutdown is running" or
>something similar and nothing happens.

[SNIP]

Never mind. Problem solved. Either one of two things happened:
1. It miraculously recovered itself.
2. I looked around and found a file called shutdownpid and peeked inside,
saw a PID that ps showed was there, and I killed the process. The rest is
history.

If it's not #2, I'd still like to know what to do in the future.
Otherwise...you learn something new on Linux everyday. :)

Regards,
Veng-Ly Tong

by **nds** » Mon, 09 Jun 1997 04:00:00

> Hi all,

> This is the first time I've experienced this problem with shutting
> down Linux. In the past, I've always logged out of the current account
> and then at the login: prompt, do a CTRL-ALT-DEL (the computer reboots
> itself, etc.). However, now all it says is "shutdown is running" or
> something similar and nothing happens.

> Can someone tell me what is wrong, or direct me to a FAQ?

Ouch, never shut it down that way, this is not MS-DOS!

On some systems the 'reboot' command will work, but for the*
details `man shutdown'

by **Mark Vojkovi** » Tue, 10 Jun 1997 04:00:00

>> Hi all,

>> This is the first time I've experienced this problem with shutting
>> down Linux. In the past, I've always logged out of the current account
>> and then at the login: prompt, do a CTRL-ALT-DEL (the computer reboots
>> itself, etc.). However, now all it says is "shutdown is running" or
>> something similar and nothing happens.

>> Can someone tell me what is wrong, or direct me to a FAQ?

>Ouch, never shut it down that way, this is not MS-DOS!

There's nothing wrong with CTRL-ALT-DEL. That is a perfectly
valid way to shutdown the machine. That particular message
occurs when there is an /etc/shutdownpid lying around.
Not sure why these aren't getting cleaned up, but you can
safely remove it and the system will shutdown normally.

MArk.

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