Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del problem

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Syrus Nemat-Nasser writes ("Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del problem"):
...
> If I'm not mistaken, it is a much better to reboot your system using the
> reboot and/or shutdown commands.  I seem to remember someone saying not to
> use Ctrl-Alt-Del.  shutdown -h should put your machine in a halted state
> for powerdown.  You have to be root to use these commands.

Ctrl-Alt-Del should work.

I too have seen it not work, with init saying `no more processes in
runlevel 6' or whatever.

Ian.