Re: shutdown failure

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@vianet.ca>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 08:05:18PM -0400, marcs_nospam_ausl@gmail.com wrote:
> shutdown stopped working, in the sense that the shutdown command
> produced the log entry
> 
> Oct 13 20:01:02 aptiva shutdown[26745]: shutting down for system
> reboot
> 
> and wrote /fsckcheck
<snip> 
> I finally pulled the plug.  After reboot, shutdown works again.
> 
> When this happens again, what should I look for in an attempt to
> figure out what's going on?

I don't know the ultimate cause, but I have a suggestion on what to do
if it happens again (other than just pulling the plug).

Manually run each script in /etc/rc0.d with the parameter "stop".
This is what the shutdown command should be doing and you may see an
error indication that gives a clue.  If not, at least you may avoid
mangling your filesystem (or some data on it).

Doug.