From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461) Description of problem: Any command that brings down the system(halt, shutdown etc) does not complete successfuly on a diskless computer. The /etc/network script shuts down the network interface and cannot complete. The result is a lot of error messages about failed RPC. In order to escape from this state the computer has to be powered down manually. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot a diskless linux off a server. 2.Issue reboot or shutdown command. 3. Actual Results: A lot of RPC failed error messages appeared. The computer never shut down. Expected Results: The reboot/shutdown command has to complete as on a diskfull system. Additional info:
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of response. If this persists on a current release, such as Fedora Core 4, please open a new bug.