I can't shutdown my K460

[Jason Arrhaman]

I am VERY new to HP administration.

I have an HP K460 runnign HPUX 11.0. I issue the 'shutdown now' command, and it looks like it's killing all the processes but then I get this message:

"Wait for transition to run-level S (allow 20 seconds).
Warning: Transition to init state s timed out -- exiting shutdown."

The server remains up, and never comes down. Can someone help me?

[Sachin Patel]

The easist thing to do is to issue reboot command and when it starts booting up turn off the key.
Reoot will kill anything which is not stopping.

Sachin

[Helen French]

After logging in as root, give this command to shutdown your server:

# shutdown -y -h 0

[Mark Greene_1]

After doing this, what does who -r say the run level is?

mark

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

cd to root by cd /

shutdown -hy now to shutdown the box

To reboot after shutdown use

shutdown -ry now

[Michael Steele_2]

You can always 'reset' the system form the GSP and bypass the O/S entirely. It's often done in cases like yours for a hung server.

From console
control b
login: return
passwd: return
GSP>rs

If you want to halt the system and power off wait until the 'interrupt boot up' message is displayed and enter any key. And at main menu power off.

've seen this with some older database products that aren't on a server that's been rebooted for several months, often I/O attributed. When was your last reboot?

who -r, uptime

For any shutdown you must be in /.

cd /
shutdown -r now.

[Tim Sanko]

Your K460 is attatched to a serial console with no GSP, so no GSP ^B to get to where you can reset. If you can reach it with telnet, from anywhere else, manually kill all non-database, non-root users' processes. Shutdown the database if applicable,
Unmount all non vg00 drives.

This is the time to turn the key. If you have an option,
shutdown -hy 0 will shutdown.
But remember to take all necessary databases, and applications down first.

Turn key off and on to cycle.
at the wait ten seconds hit a key. Interact with the boot process and type
hpux -is at the ipl prompt.

That will allow you to reset root passwd and do vg00 non / and swap reconfig.

Tim

[Tim Sanko]

To further clarify, shutdown first then turn key if power off is necessary.


With a shutdown -hy 0 you will still have to operate the key to off, and back on....
I worked till 2 A.M. last night and am fuzzy mentally without a drink...

Tim

[Mike Still]

You can try 'reboot -h' as well. reboot bypasses most of the shutdown scripts and is actually the command that's executed after the shutdown scripts. I wouldn't try going into the GSP (^B) before exhausting ALL other options to restart the system.

[Jason Arrhaman]

I used shutdown -y -h 0, and it worked fine. Thanks guys. But I am curious why it is happening. Any suggestions?

[Sachin Patel]

I have same problem sometime when automounter is hang. or system can't umount some
disks.

Sachin.

[Pete Randall]

What command did you use before? Perhaps just "shutdown"? That will direct the system to go to the single user state, which is pretty much what you saw (not sure about the "timed out" message, though). The only way to really shut down is to add some parameters to your shutdown command (like "-h y 0") or use a reboot command (also with parameters) to do a quick and dirty shutdown.


Pete

[Jason Arrhaman]

Originally, I used "shutdown -h 0" and I got the message.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Jason,

I suspect the fact that you did not have a -y in the original command was the culprit.
That parm forces a "yes" answer to any questions/confirmations shutdown may have/want.
If it shuts down cleanly now when you use -y , that's a good indication that was the problem.

Rgds,
Jeff