on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 01:25:05PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce (mcpierce@telocity.com) wrote: > When I try to halt or reboot my Debian desktop (running woody), the > system gets to "Deconfiguring network interfaces:" and then just seems > to stop. It's not hung, because I can ALT+Fx to different terminals, > and I can also ping the machine from other hosts. But, for whatever > reason, the system does not seem to be shutting down. I did finally > let it sit for a few minutes and it eventually rebooted, but why is it > taking so long to do that? What processes are going on and how can I > speed things up? You're in a far better position to determine this than us. Start with the shutdown manpage and /etc/init.d/README, and take it from there. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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