Newbie Q about Shutdown problem...

[Brian Kelsay]

Make sure you use "shutdown -h now"  which will end all processes and
halt (h) the machine.  Shutdown is a script to kill daemons and
processes and you can add h for halt or r for reboot.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Berger" <cbjhawks at kc.rr.com>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 9:34 AM
Subject: Newbie Q about Shutdown problem...

> Hello everyone, nice to find some local help. Installed RH 7.1 on my
> desktop and everything worked fine for awhile,  but now my machine
wont
> shutdown properly  until I shutdown/reboot/shutdown a second time.
When
> I choose shutdown the first time all the process' are ended but then
> they restart themselves and then the process takes me to the DOS login
> screen which is where  I do the three-finger salute and the process
> starts over and delivers me to the GUI login screen...I choose
Shutdown
> a second time and only then can I power down properly. Upon the reboot
I
> get the following error message "Shutting down kernel logger
FAILED"
> Is this because of the reboot? On the second shutdown I go back to the
> DOS login screen but the following happens:
>
> MKC-65.26.XX.XXX Login:
> md recovery thread got woken up
> md: recovery thread finished
> md recovery at (0) flushing signals
> Stopping all md devices
> Power down
>
> (where XXX is my internet address)
>
> Any ideas/thoughts as to what is causing this? Your help is
appreciated
> and thanks in advance.
>
> Robert Berger
> OP KS
>
>
>
>
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