Re: Crash

[John Maheu <jmaheu@raemac.econ.ualberta.ca>]

I just looked at "last" on my system and noticed the same thing.
Some reboots and shutdowns appear as crash. Yet I know everything was
umounted correctly.

WHY?

John
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On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Andreas Kahari wrote:

> The 'halt' command in Debian behaves as if I typed 'shutdown -h now',
> i.e. it sends TERM and KILL to all processes and stops all daemons, and
> finally prints "System halted" (if I press the big red button, which I
> won't do, this naturally won't happen). I still get "crash"... 
> 
> Here's some output from the 'last' command on my system:
> andreas  tty1                          Mon Oct 26 18:53   still logged in
> reboot   system boot                   Mon Oct 26 18:53  
> root     tty1                          Sun Oct 25 14:20 - 14:21  (00:00)
> reboot   system boot                   Sun Oct 25 14:20  
> root     tty1                          Sun Oct 25 14:14 - crash  (00:03)
> reboot   system boot                   Sun Oct 25 14:14  
> andreas  tty2                          Sun Oct 25 13:59 - crash  (00:12)
> andreas  tty1                          Sun Oct 25 14:53 - crash  (00:-41)
> reboot   system boot                   Sun Oct 25 14:53  
> andreas  tty1                          Fri Oct 23 20:54 - crash  (01:08)
> 
> I notice now that 'reboot' won't cause a "crash", but 'halt' *and*
> 'shutdown -h now' will.
> 
> Also, CTRL-ALT-DEL (in inittab: "ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1
> -h now") will cause "crash" (I changed this entry in inittab from "-r"
> to "-h", which is what I want CTRL-ALT-DEL to do). 
> 
> But, as I said, nothing appears to be wrong. Everything works fine,
> except for the word "crash"...
> 
> /A
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> 
> On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Lukas Eppler wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Andreas Kahari wrote:
> > 
> > > At work, if I reboot my Solaris workstation, the "last" command reports
> > > something like
> > > reboot    system boot                   Fri Oct 23 09:54 
> > > ...
> > > but at home, with Debian 2.0, it simply states that my system has
> > > "crashed" at a specific time.
> > 
> > the 'halt' and 'reboot' commands are probably the hardcore method to bring
> > the system down. On some distributions (maybe debian too, don't want to
> > try out at the moment) 'sbin/shutdown -h now' goes into runlevel 0, goes
> > trough /etc/init.d/* stop, halts then kills the remaining processes. this
> > is the safe way, and would not 'crash'. I saw once that at the end of the
> > shutdown, a 'halt' or 'reboot' is executed at the very end, so on these
> > systems, typing 'halt' is like just pressing the power button.
> > 
> > try if your problem goes away by using 'shutdown -r now'.
> > 
> > --
> > Lukas Eppler (godot)
> > 
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