Bug 252138

What was the crontabs version, what version of vixie-cron. 
Are you using crontab -e or editing /etc/crontab?

(In reply to comment #1)
> What was the crontabs version, what version of vixie-cron. 
> Are you using crontab -e or editing /etc/crontab?

anacron.i386                             2.3-44.fc6             installed
crontabs.noarch                          1.10-12.fc6            installed
vixie-cron.i386                          4:4.1-69.fc6           installed

i always edit using crontab -e

I'm using shutdown -h, but I have similar problem on my fc-6 independent on time
and with kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.6.4.fc6.
That's definitely not problem of crontabs.

Created attachment 161262 [details]
extract from messages log

> I'm using shutdown -h, but I have similar problem on my fc-6 independent on 
time
> and with kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.6.4.fc6.
> That's definitely not problem of crontabs.

I have been looking around and taken an extract from the messages log.

It appeared at shutdown smartd raised an error with a signal 15.

I understand that this may cause a reboot rather than shutdown.

Will disable SMART on the PC BIOS and see what happens.

thanks(In reply to comment #3)

(In reply to comment #5)
> > I'm using shutdown -h, but I have similar problem on my fc-6 independent on 
> time
> > and with kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.6.4.fc6.
> > That's definitely not problem of crontabs.
> I have been looking around and taken an extract from the messages log.
> It appeared at shutdown smartd raised an error with a signal 15.
> I understand that this may cause a reboot rather than shutdown.
> Will disable SMART on the PC BIOS and see what happens.
> thanks(In reply to comment #3)


I'm still having problems - and even disabling SMART on the BIOS and stopping 
and disabling the smartd processes, still getting reboots on shutdown.

Over the next few days I will keep changing the shutdown times to try and get a 
succesfull shutdown.  I know thatduring daytime hours it appears to be ok, 
which I discovered when trying to establish what the problem was.  So each 
night I will be changing the shutdown by bringing forward the time by 30 mins.

(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > > I'm using shutdown -h, but I have similar problem on my fc-6 independent 
on 
> > time
> > > and with kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.6.4.fc6.
> > > That's definitely not problem of crontabs.
> > I have been looking around and taken an extract from the messages log.
> > It appeared at shutdown smartd raised an error with a signal 15.
> > I understand that this may cause a reboot rather than shutdown.
> > Will disable SMART on the PC BIOS and see what happens.
> > thanks(In reply to comment #3)
> I'm still having problems - and even disabling SMART on the BIOS and stopping 
> and disabling the smartd processes, still getting reboots on shutdown.
> Over the next few days I will keep changing the shutdown times to try and get 
a 
> succesfull shutdown.  I know thatduring daytime hours it appears to be ok, 
> which I discovered when trying to establish what the problem was.  So each 
> night I will be changing the shutdown by bringing forward the time by 30 mins.

Yesterday I  applied the following updates :

smartmontools-5.37-1.2.fc6 
dovecot-1.0.3-6.fc6 
kernel-2.6.22.1-32.fc6 

and had a successfull shutdown, the first since the last update, at 23:00

I will confirm in a couple of days whether this has successfully fixed the 
problem.

thanks

(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > (In reply to comment #5)
> > > > I'm using shutdown -h, but I have similar problem on my fc-6 
independent 
> on 
> > > time
> > > > and with kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.6.4.fc6.
> > > > That's definitely not problem of crontabs.
> > > I have been looking around and taken an extract from the messages log.
> > > It appeared at shutdown smartd raised an error with a signal 15.
> > > I understand that this may cause a reboot rather than shutdown.
> > > Will disable SMART on the PC BIOS and see what happens.
> > > thanks(In reply to comment #3)
> > I'm still having problems - and even disabling SMART on the BIOS and 
stopping 
> > and disabling the smartd processes, still getting reboots on shutdown.
> > Over the next few days I will keep changing the shutdown times to try and 
get 
> a 
> > succesfull shutdown.  I know thatduring daytime hours it appears to be ok, 
> > which I discovered when trying to establish what the problem was.  So each 
> > night I will be changing the shutdown by bringing forward the time by 30 
mins.
> Yesterday I  applied the following updates :
> smartmontools-5.37-1.2.fc6 
> dovecot-1.0.3-6.fc6 
> kernel-2.6.22.1-32.fc6 
> and had a successfull shutdown, the first since the last update, at 23:00
> I will confirm in a couple of days whether this has successfully fixed the 
> problem.
> thanks


This does not appear to be resolved.  Last night at 23:00 at shutdown, the 
server rebooted.

I am now having to stop awake to check this - I have remote users accessing 
this server, and do not want to shutdown the service any earlier, and am having 
to stop up to close down the server manually.

Please can you confirm whether this is a known issue that is being addressed.

thanks

Created attachment 167989 [details]
Latest messages log from last night

included last nights message log showing shutdown and restart

(In reply to comment #9)
> Created an attachment (id=167989) [edit]
> Latest messages log from last night
> included last nights message log showing shutdown and restart

Loaded latest kernel kernel-2.6.22.4-45 yesterday, but still on shutdown, a 
restart is performed.

thanks

(In reply to comment #10)
> (In reply to comment #9)
> > Created an attachment (id=167989) [edit] [edit]
> > Latest messages log from last night
> > included last nights message log showing shutdown and restart
> Loaded latest kernel kernel-2.6.22.4-45 yesterday, but still on shutdown, a 
> restart is performed.
> thanks


Loaded latest Kernel Linux 2.6.22.5-49.fc6  yesterday, and shutdown still 
performed a reboot.

I have also noticed, the using the power off button normally performs a 
shutdown, but that occasionaly too also performs a restart.

thanks

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