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- From: rhealey@ub.d.umn.edu (Rob Healey)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: Problem with shutdowning...
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 11:16:15 -0600
- Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
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- In article <abeech.722149264@kraken> abeech@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Adrian Beech) writes:
- =At the moment I cannot fully shutdown this system. I issue the
- =command "shutdown -y -g5 -i0" and the system goes through its
- =normal process until the "The system is down" message appears.
- =After this the system just sits there and ever so often the hard
- =drive does something.
-
- As root on console try init 0 or init 6. If these don't work then
- you have probably created "immortal" processes that won't die and
- thus cause the filesystem to shutdown "dirty". See if there are
- processess marked defunct or something like that before you shut down,
- these might indicate you have immortal/zombie processes that
- are holding on to file descritors so the filesystem can't be
- unmounted.
-
- -Rob
-