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Re: problem with "halt" command to shutdown



> 
> Hi,
> i used the "halt" command to shutdown my linux box and i receive a 
> message like: "unable to find the runlevel, using hard halt"
> After that, my computer was totally frozen. So, i used the reset to reboot
> my computer. My partition appear wasn't properly unmounted and a check was
> needed. Fortunalety, all my partitions was ok.
> Any one can help me to correct my halt command? Every time i used this
> command before, everything was done properly.

>From reading the man page on halt - when halt or reboot are called and the
system is not in runlevel 0 or 6 then the shutdown command is called with
-h or -r.  (halt == shutdown -h now, reboot == shutdown -r now)
so everything *should* work fine.  What version of halt are you running?
Mine is from the sysvinit_2.69-1.deb package.   The manpage does indicate
that halt and reboot should *never* be called directly in previous versions
os sysvinit.
> 
> Dany Dionne
> Physics Department
> Laval University, Canada
> 
Chuck
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