Re: shutdown/reboot/halt broken 1.3.39-42

William E. Roadcap (roadcapw@cfw.com)
Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:58:38 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, Richard Waltham wrote:

> I've found shutdown/reboot/halt has problems on all kernel versions I've
> tried after 1.3.37 (not just 41) - 39 41 42. 38 and 40 wouldn't compile
> with my config.
>
> Any advice anyone?

I am running kernel 1.3.40 with sysvinit-2.50
Suggest upgrading to sysvinit-2.50 if you haven't already. The newest
version removes allot of things from the binary in favor of using rc.?
scripts. This is more like the real sysv init. You get more control
over the shutdown process this way.
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