System wont reboot?

camers · 02-06-2008, 05:00 PM

I have a server running CentOS 4.4 and it does not seem to reboot or shutdown correctly.

When I issue the 'reboot' command, it'll will shutdown all the services with the status 'OK' apart from 'irqbalance' which states it 'FAILED'. It then hangs on 'Restarting System'. Running 'init 6' will do the same.

I can shut it down fine by issuing 'shutdown -h now' or 'init 0'.

Any ideas?

custangro · 02-06-2008, 05:49 PM

The 'reboot' command does NOT do a graceful shutdown. It essentially halts the system and then boots it.

But it's interesting that you get the same results from an 'init 6' (which should do a graceful reboot)...

I always use the 'shutdown -r now' command to reboot...it's a better way to reboot...

-C

camers · 02-06-2008, 05:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by custangro

I always use the 'shutdown -r now' command to reboot...it's a better way to reboot...

That command just hangs as well. Hmmm..

custangro · 02-06-2008, 06:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by camers

That command just hangs as well. Hmmm..

Now that's weird...

Have you taken a look at /var/log/messages

-C

jailbait · 02-06-2008, 06:23 PM

The irqbalance error message on a single CPU is a known bug in irqbalance. The bug is of no consequence and the erroneous error message has been corrected on later releases of irqbalance.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397901

When you do a shutdown -h the shutdown command includes a hardware reset. When you do a "reboot" there is no hardware reset. Some BIOS are buggy about booting on a reboot with no hardware reset. I suggest that you use Google to check to see if your BIOS version is subject to reboot failures when there is no hardware reset.

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Steve Stites

camers · 02-06-2008, 06:29 PM

Ok, I issued the 'init 6' command and this is what the log looks like :

Code:

Feb  6 15:20:44 bedroom init: Switching to runlevel: 6
Feb  6 15:20:45 bedroom haldaemon: haldaemon -TERM succeeded
Feb  6 15:20:45 bedroom dbus: Can't send to audit system: USER_AVC pid=3098 uid=81 loginuid=-1 message=avc:  1 AV entries and 1/512 buckets used, longest chain length 1 
Feb  6 15:20:45 bedroom messagebus: messagebus -TERM succeeded
Feb  6 15:20:45 bedroom atd: atd shutdown succeeded
Feb  6 15:20:45 bedroom cups: cupsd shutdown succeeded
Feb  6 15:20:45 bedroom gpm: gpm shutdown succeeded
Feb  6 15:20:46 bedroom sshd: sshd -TERM succeeded
Feb  6 15:20:46 bedroom sendmail: sendmail shutdown succeeded
Feb  6 15:20:46 bedroom sendmail: sm-client shutdown succeeded
Feb  6 15:20:46 bedroom smartd[2926]: smartd received signal 15: Terminated 
Feb  6 15:20:46 bedroom smartd[2926]: smartd is exiting (exit status 0) 
Feb  6 15:20:46 bedroom smartd: smartd shutdown succeeded
Feb  6 15:20:46 bedroom xinetd[3026]: Exiting...
Feb  6 15:20:46 bedroom xinetd: xinetd shutdown succeeded
Feb  6 15:20:46 bedroom crond: crond shutdown succeeded
Feb  6 15:20:46 bedroom apmd[2884]: Exiting
Feb  6 15:20:47 bedroom apmd: apmd shutdown succeeded
Feb  6 15:20:47 bedroom rpc.statd[2827]: Caught signal 15, un-registering and exiting.
Feb  6 15:20:48 bedroom nfslock: rpc.statd shutdown succeeded
Feb  6 15:20:48 bedroom irqbalance: irqbalance shutdown failed
Feb  6 15:20:48 bedroom portmap: portmap shutdown succeeded
Feb  6 15:20:48 bedroom kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
Feb  6 15:20:48 bedroom kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.
Feb  6 15:20:49 bedroom syslog: klogd shutdown succeeded
Feb  6 15:20:49 bedroom exiting on signal 15

Everything after this was the log of the system booting backup after I hit the reset button on the front of the case.

camers · 02-06-2008, 07:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jailbait

Some BIOS are buggy about booting on a reboot with no hardware reset. I suggest that you use Google to check to see if your BIOS version is subject to reboot failures when there is no hardware reset.

Ok well the motherboard is an MSI PM8M3-V, which runs the Phoenix AwardBIOS. That's all I know. MSI do not list any BIOS downloads on their website for this board..

Any ideas?