Re: Shutdown not working

[Salvio <salvio geneticmail com>]

I'm referring to the gnome panel.

Regardless of the definition found in the man page, when a
user selects "shut down" from the gnome panel my guess is
that the computer should power down, i.e. shutdown -h now


Thoughts?

Graham Campbell wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 17:47, Salvio wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > connecting (via ssh) to a remote machine I have:
> >
> > ---
> > login as: root
> > Sent username "root"
> > root 192 168 0 111's password:
> > Last login: Tue Dec  9 17:32:31 2003 from 192.168.0.110
> > [root localhost root]# shutdown now
> >
> > Broadcast message from root (pts/1) (Tue Dec  9 17:37:38 2003):
> >
> > The system is going down to maintenance mode NOW!
> > [root localhost root]#
> > ---
> >
> > on the screen of the remote machine I see:
> >
> > ---
> > Telling INIT to go to single user mode.
> > INIT: Going sigle user
> > INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
> > INIT: Sending pocesses the KILL signal
> > sh-2.05b#
> > ---
> >
> > What should I check?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Salvio
> >
> >    
>
> According to the shutdown man page, the default action is to go into
> single user mode (runlevel 1). Use the -r flag to reboot or the -h flag
> to halt the system.
>