Hello,
I've noticed a problem with the 'shutdown -r' command in DU 3.2D-1. The
problems only occurs on my 2100's, it is OK on my alpha server 400 running
the same version of DU.
The only notable difference between the 2 machines (apart from capacity,
etc...) is that the 2100's are using ADVFS everywhere (root fs + all) and
the AlphaServer is using UFS everywhere.
I also noticed that the shutdown -h and/or shutdown -r commands do not seem
to run the rc0 shutdown scripts. Is this true ? It just seems to broadcast
kill signals to all process. This can be dangerous with an Oracle Database
Around.
>From time to time, you install stuff or read admin books and they tell you
to shutdown and restart the system with the 'shutdown -r' command. It just
does not work on my 2100's, I have to shutdown, remount the filesystems,
sync twice and from single user, shutdown -r.
Here is the symptom (assume you are running in the GUI from the start)
a) Shutown -r now
The systems goes down to the blue screen, seems to hang, and nothing else
happens.
b) If you first go down to single user mode (shutdown now) and then issue
the shutdown -r now command, it jams. The only way I could reboot was to
shut down to single user, run bcheckrc, sync twice and shutdown -r now. I
think it is a problem with the shutdown command not being able to write to
wtmp or something like this, but it should not hang, should it ?
If anyone has a fix, please let me know.
Thanks !
Guy Dallaire
dallaire_at_total.net
"God only knows if god exists"
Received on Mon Mar 24 1997 - 17:59:29 NZST