Unable to shutdown/reboot server, no shutdown process running

dctw · 03-30-2010, 05:52 AM

Hi guys,

I'm trying to reboot the server (shutdown -r now).
But it seems like nothing happened.

When I try "shutdown -c", the system prompts "shutdown: cannot find pid of running shutdown."

Any idea?

dctw · 03-30-2010, 05:52 AM

I'm using RHEL3 btw..

Sayan Acharjee · 03-30-2010, 05:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dctw

Hi guys,

I'm trying to reboot the server (shutdown -r now).
But it seems like nothing happened.

When I try "shutdown -c", the system prompts "shutdown: cannot find pid of running shutdown."

Any idea?

You should be root to execute shutdown command, you can try reboot command here.

shutdown -c resulted that error means the command shutdown -r now is actually never executed so a pid for the process did not generate.

dctw · 03-30-2010, 08:51 PM

Yes I am a root user.
I'll try the "reboot" command later.

dctw · 03-31-2010, 05:43 AM

Done.. works like a charm...
Now I can use the "shutdown" command as usual.

Thank you so much for the help.

Sayan Acharjee · 03-31-2010, 05:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dctw

Done.. works like a charm...
Now I can use the "shutdown" command as usual.

Thank you so much for the help.

My pleasure

You can also use init 6 as root.