topic Re: shutdown command in Operating System - HP-UX

shutdown command

Louis McCurry — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:16:27 GMT

Recently added the sept 01 patch set to a hpux 11 system. Since that time, when I issue the command: shutdown -r -y 0 the system goes to single user mode but does not reboot.
Before today the /etc/shutdown.allow file was blank. I added + root this morning but have not tried to shutdown and restart.
Any other ideas?

Thanks

Re: shutdown command

someone_4 — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:19:45 GMT

my shutdown.allow has always been blank.
what happends when you do
shutdown -ry 0
i know its the same thing but do you get the same result?

Richard

Re: shutdown command

Roger Baptiste — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:28:37 GMT

A zerobyte (blank) /etc/shutdown.allow file or a missing shutdown.allow file should be
good enough to allow root
to shutdown the box. There
is no need to add any entry
in it, as long you want only
root to bring the box down.

Regarding the system coming
to single user state, what does the console logs show?
You can try running the same
command again from the single
user state.

Also, make sure the patches
were installed correctly!
Swlist -a and see whether
they are configured.

HTH
raj

Re: shutdown command

Darrell Allen — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:31:55 GMT

Hi Louis,

Do you get any clues from /etc/shutdownlog, /etc/rc.log, or /etc/rc.log.old?

Does you system shutdown to single-user mode or does it try to reboot and comes up to single-user mode? Again, check the console.

Obviously and as Raj says, verify your patches are installed correctly.

Darrell

Re: shutdown command

Craig Rants — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:37:08 GMT

Also, try /sbin/shutdown
Check to see if /etc/shutdown and /usr/sbin/shutdown are links and that no one has replaced them with shutdown scripts..

Just to cover all bases.

Re: shutdown command

S.K. Chan — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:44:25 GMT

Are you in init level 3 ?
If you are, run ..
# init 2
# exit
Then login to the system again and shutdown.

Re: shutdown command

Louis McCurry — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:04:42 GMT

Verified the pathes are installed correctly.

The system console had a text login banner (as opposed to the CDE).

I logged in and the system had 2 or 3 file systems mounted, /, /stand and /tmp (I think).

I issued the same shutdown command and a message similar to the following came up.
"disabling DHCP access...invalid, not configured" (This is not the exact message, but close. We do not use DHCP on this server)

It sat at this point for 7+ minutes, I eventually hit the power switch.

On power up the same DHCP message came up and stayed for 6 minutes, then the following messages came out:
"Synchronization of volume group vg0 complete"
"Synchronization of volume group vg1 complete"
The system booted normally.
The last lines in the rc.log.old file are:
Unload loadable modules
Output from "/sbin/rc0.d/K88kminit stop":
-----------------------------------------

The rc.log shows a normal system start.

There are links in /etc and /usr/sbin to /sbin/shutdown that is dated Apr 12 2000 and is 266240 bytes in size.

Thanks

Re: shutdown command

Alan Riggs — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:06:02 GMT

Is it possible that someone has written a wrapper for the shutdown command in your environment? If that wrapper is not passing your command flags to /usr/sbin/shutdown that would explain the behavior.

Use "trype shutdown" to show where the shell is resolving your command. If it is anything other than /usr/sbin/shutdown then try using the full path to the command (and investigate the wrapper, of course).

Re: shutdown command

Bo Thide' — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 20:12:43 GMT

What if you use the 'reboot' command
instead?

Bo

Re: shutdown command

Louis McCurry — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 20:28:56 GMT

No wrappers as type indicates the correct command is executing.

Is reboot functionally the same as shutdown -r -y 0 ?

Reading the man pages there seem to be no arguments and it immediately restartrs the system, which is fine for my needs.

Re: shutdown command

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 20:31:55 GMT

Hi,

Check /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file and look for dhcp, if anywhere you find DHCP_ENABLE=1 then make it to 0

Goodluck,
-USA..

Re: shutdown command

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 20:52:59 GMT

Hi Louis:

In answer to your question about 'reboot' vs. 'shutdown', 'shutdown' is an orderly transition which invokes the kill scripts at the various run-levels of '/sbin/rc?.d/'. As a last step in the process when a halt or reboot is requested (e.g. 'shutdown -ry 0'), then 'reboot' is called. Thus, invoking 'reboot' directly would bypass the shutdown scripts.

You indicate that your /etc/rc.log appears not to show any failues. The behavior you describe is consistent with something taking a very long time to terminate, or perhaps timeout.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: shutdown command

Craig Rants — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 22:43:45 GMT

Do you have Oracle or some other large application on this server? It can take a while for Oracle to shutdown the database if there are a lot of users in it at the time.

Re: shutdown command

Jej' — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:23:05 GMT

Hi,

Try to use reboot -h 0.
I think there's a link between your shutdown command and a shutdown script.

Re: shutdown command

harry d brown jr — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:01:52 GMT

Shouldn't

/sbin/rc0.d/K88kminit stop

be

/sbin/rc0.d/K888kminit stop

???

could be executing out of order, or was it a typo ?

live free or die
harry