RE: Anyone have problems with shutdown not working properly?

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Shaw, Michael D wrote:

> Unfortunately this Linux server runs Continuus(Telelogic's CM/CS) and their
> fix for us when too many application processes get running and thus lock out
> 'doze users is to restart xinetd(doesn't work) or reboot.  This happens at
> least twice a week!  Granted this is dumb, but hey I just started here a
> couple of months ago and so I have to live with what they tossed me.  BTW,
> Telelogic hasn't been very helpful in this matter other than saying upgrade
> your JRE - no effect - So, we don't have the problem in the new version
> coming out in April that is supported under RH8!  I love it!  Makes me feel
> like I'm running an NT server and dealing with M$.

Continuus?  Blechhhh.   Informix backend I take it is the shutdown issue.
A couple of questions come to mind.  But first, could you post the 
shutdown command you are using?

There are at least two possibilities here: shutdown is not working right, 
or, alternatively, shutdown is working correctly but you do not think that 
is true.  In your original post the only evidence you provided that it is 
not working correctly is that during shutdown you see the beginning of the 
shutdown messages but then nothing until you see the hardware/BIOS stuff.
An alternative reason that you would not see this info on shutdown is that 
there is an alternative console to which the messages are displayed.  
E.g., if you have a serial console as the primary console then shutdown 
messages will be displayed there rather than on the tty[1-6] or whatever
virtual consoles you have defined.  Is there an alternative console 
defined in lilo.conf/grub.conf (depends on your boot loader).

Let's say it is an improper shutdown; have you tried the appropriate 
'init' commands as an alternative?  Two strategies:

1)  init 6

OR

1) init 1
   manually shutdown continuus
   init x 
 
where x is 3/5 to return straight back to your original runlevel or
6 if you want to do a warm boot on the way. 

shutdown has always worked for me ... but I am old/wise enough to know 
that there are a multiple of other possibilities in the world :)

- rick -