Reboot does not work on any machine

[Albert Graham]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 21:36 +0100, Albert Graham wrote:
>   
>> When I run reboot it outputs the following and simply sits there:
>>
>> INIT: Switching to runlevel: 6
>>     
>
> Does your /etc/inittab have the default level set to 6? If so, try
> changing it to 5, which is the usual value.
>
> poc
>
>   
No, it's set to 3, however other machines do have it set to 5.

The strange thing is, you would expect it to work run runlevel 1, reboot 
is a symlink to halt as follows:


[root at laptop ~]# file `which reboot`
/sbin/reboot: symbolic link to `halt'

[root at laptop ~]# file `which halt`
/sbin/halt: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), 
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, stripped

[root at laptop ~]# which halt
/sbin/halt

[root at laptop ~]# md5sum /sbin/halt
a53feb292a2508e899fa07db97e3829f  /sbin/halt

[root at laptop ~]# rpm -q --whatprovides /sbin/halt
sysvinit-2.86-18



Albert.