Bug 1798

Summary:	shutdown -h now from an xterm locks system up mid shutdown
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Adrian Likins <alikins>
Component:	SysVinit	Assignee:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	mlarios
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Description Adrian Likins 1999-03-25 21:54:38 UTC

Trying to issue the command:

	shutdown -h now

	From an xterm, particularly when in run level 5, causes the
shutdown to stop just after issueing the
shutdown message. At that point, the shutdown appears to
stop, while the machine seems vaguely responsive (numlock
works, changing vc's works) but there is no way to force the
shutdown to continue, or to abort it. ctrl-alt-delete
appears to be ignored.

seen on several support tickets in 5.2, and duplicated
on a p100, 32meg, s3 vision 968 vid card (apu) running 5.9.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-05-10 17:03:59 UTC

can you still reproduce this in 6.0?

Comment 2 Michael K. Johnson 1999-05-12 18:08:59 UTC

The output of chkconfig --list might be useful in diagnosing this.