Re: reboot hangs after shutdown

Tony Nugent (tonyn@sctnugen.ppp.gu.edu.au)
Sat, 17 Feb 1996 22:03:57 +1000


Thu, 15 Feb 96 15:36, Curtiss <1CMC3466@ibm.mtsac.edu> wrote:

> Back in January a change made to the kernel caused sysvinit to
> break when shutting down with the command. Init was not able to figure
> out the runlevel at shutdown and was therefore forced to do a hard re-
> boot obviously doing a number on the mounted filesystem. Using the ctrl-
> alt-del sequence enables me to shutdown properly. I personally have no
> motivation into trying locate the source of the problem because I can
> live with the current behaviour.

Install a more recent version of sysvinit:

ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Daemons/init/

The latest version is usually kept at:

ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/People/miquels/

Last time I looked, it was sysvinit-2.58-5.tar.gz, but that was not
very recently.

Cheers
Tony
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