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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: system will not shutdown
Message-ID: <2371@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 16-Feb-85 23:18:56 EST
Article-I.D.: nsc.2371
Posted: Sat Feb 16 23:18:56 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 18-Feb-85 05:44:42 EST
References: <93600004@siemens.UUCP>
Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Organization: The Village
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Summary: 

In article <93600004@siemens.UUCP> jcc@siemens.UUCP writes:
>	Shutdown starts, gives back its pid number, then just hangs there
>	forever.  A "ps" of the pid shows the state "I <".  Has anyone
>	else had this problem?  Is /etc/shutdown waiting for a resource it
>	can not get?  As always, all suggestions or comments are welcomed.

I've seen this occasionally. What seems to be happening is that the 'wall'
that shutdown does hangs on a terminal for some reason and doesn't ever
complete, and the shutdown never moves beyond that. I'm not sure why it 
should hang on the wall (^Q?) and I've never been motivated to find it--
that is what 'kill 1 1' is for...

chuq

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