"shutdown -r now" fails to reboot

confusedchambo · 08-21-2003, 10:02 AM

on a pretty standard install of redhat 7.3 the "shutdown -r now" command has worked seemlessly for months. After upgrading some packages, removing a startup link from /etc/rc.3/, and adding a new S link in its place. I issued the aforementioned command from a remote ssh client. The machine jups to runlevel 6 and shutsdown as it always has with no signs of error in the logs. However, it fails to reboot. Ye' old 1-finger-salute (power button) is needed to stir the box back to life. I've scoured the web and all related posts suggest using the reboot command.....I will try that but would rather know why the shutdown command bombs out before rebooting. ANY IDEAS??

lfur · 08-21-2003, 01:52 PM

Have you checked the cahnged links, maybe the problem hides there. About reboot, it's just a symbolic link to shutdown and it does exactly what you are doing: shutdown -r now

Robby · 08-21-2003, 02:15 PM

Isn't it shutdown now -r ? or are the results supposed to be the same...

confusedchambo · 08-21-2003, 02:25 PM

lfur.....thanks for the suggestion....I realize now that reboot calls shutdown.

the problem was that /etc/rc6.d/S01reboot was linked to ../init.d/halt and not ../init.d/reboot

should have been obvious but alas.....cest la vie (sp?)

tcaptain · 08-21-2003, 02:32 PM

On mine its shutdown -r now or reboot.

lfur · 08-21-2003, 05:46 PM

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lfur.....thanks for the suggestion....

It's nice to hear that my bits don't go straight to binary hell

andrewlkho · 08-21-2003, 07:01 PM

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Originally posted by confusedchambo
alas.....cest la vie (sp?)

eh quoi?....c'est la vie, non?