HP-UX 11.11 failed to reboot properly

[BW Moll]

Ran a shutdown and it seemed to be successful...

[ajc-hr] (/)
# shutdown -r -y 0

SHUTDOWN PROGRAM
02/09/08 07:25:27 EST

Broadcast Message from bmoll (pts/ta) Sat Feb 9 07:25:27...
SYSTEM BEING BROUGHT DOWN NOW ! ! !

However the system did not boot properly. A review of the rc.log.old showed the following:

Unmount file systems
Output from "/sbin/rc0.d/K900localmount stop":
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umountall: umount : has failed.
umountall: diagnostics from umount
umount: cannot unmount /home : Device busy
umount: return error 1.
umountall: umount : has failed.
umountall: diagnostics from umount
umount: cannot unmount /opt : Device busy
umount: return error 1.
umountall: umount : has failed.
umountall: diagnostics from umount
umount: cannot unmount /usr : Device busy
umount: return error 1.
umountall: umount : has failed.
umountall: diagnostics from umount
umount: cannot unmount /var : Device busy
umount: return error 1.

Stopping all Volume Manager I/O Daemons
Output from "/sbin/rc0.d/K930vxvm-daemon-kill stop":
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HP-UX run-level transition completed
Sat Feb 9 07:27:55 EST 2008
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Any possible reasons for this would be appreciated !!

[Tim Nelson]

There were still user procs running/logged in.

This happens especially if you su to root and then shutdown via telnet instead of direct from console.

Could also have been any process that did not die ( i.e. unresponsive ).

As the listed root filesystems change little or only have log files open there is really no issue. Upon reboot fsck will be run and all will be ok.

[BW Moll]

thank you !!