What to do when it is impossible to switch of the computer

[Mogens Kjaer]

Liloulinx wrote:
> Hi,
> What must I do when I try to switch off my computer but it dosn't do it ?
> After this, I have done :
> Ctrl Alt F2 + shutdown -F now --> it dosn't do any thing
> Ctrl Alt F3 + init 0 :  it display me this:
>   INIT: Switching to runlevel : 0
>   INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
>   INIT: Sending processes the kill signal
>   INIT: Pid 4182 [id x]  seems to hang

Before you power down, could you do a

ps -ef >psef.log

so you can check which process (in this case
PID 4182) was hanging when the system comes up
again?

Mogens

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