Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 08:33:01 -0800 (PST) From: Dave McCammon <davemac11@yahoo.com> To: pics <picsint@shaw.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shutdown and reboot Message-ID: <20031226163301.36666.qmail@web41414.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <00b801c3c9bb$00be3a80$6400a8c0@r6s5m1>
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--- pics <picsint@shaw.ca> wrote: > Hi, > I've had experience with RH Linux but am not very > familiar with FreeBsd. For some reason, I cannot get > the machine to reboot or to shutdown. I looked at > the man pages for the shutdown command, and, for > rebooting, typed #shutdown -r now. but I still have > the same problem as I did with the reboot command: > > ... > Saving firewall state tables:. > Dec 23 17:08:40 syslogd: exiting on signal 15 > Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process 'vnlru' > to stop...stopped > > and that's where it just freezes!!! > Also, for shutdown, after printing some stuff on the > screen, it asks me for a shell then gives me the > shell's prompt like nothing happened. This is shutting down to single user mode. Not halting or rebooting the machine. > I'm no sys admin so some help is appreciated. > Thanks. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/
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