shutdown does not work

[Dave Chamberlin]

I have an rp8400 with a single partition, running hpux 11.11. When I do: "shutdown -h now" - the console indicates the system is shutting down, but nothing changes. I can still log in via telnet, execute commands etc. Any suggestions as to what is hanging it up? Yesterday, after waiting 20 minutes, I had to start manually killing processes and eventually this killed my telnet session and then shut down.

[S.Rider]

ps -ef | grep K
to see what script it's hanging on.

[Laurent Menase]

it can also be an application which is hang and can't be killed.

if it is the case, TOC the system and contact support

[Marlou Everson]

Did you check /etc/rc.log.old to see where it is in the "System shutdown in progress" section? Hopefully, something is recorded there.

Marlou

[Tim Nelson]

FYI,

/etc/rc.log is updated during startup and then subsequent shutdown. During the next startup the log is moved to rc.log.old.

Review your /etc/rc.log after initiating the shutdown. Check for updates or hung stop scripts in there.

[BW Moll]

When ALL ELSE FAILS

and IF YOU FEEL LUCKY

reboot -q will shut the system down hard.

[Matti_Kurkela]

Maybe one of the shutdown scripts (located in /sbin/init.d, called through symlinks in /sbin/rc?.d directories) was in a loop or hanging for some reason.

After you killed the hanging/looping process, the rest of the shutdown may have been able to continue.

MK

[Laurent Menase]

Better than the reboot -q, if all your critical applications have been stopped properly, take a TOC of the system, it will give a chance to analyse the root cause. Else there is no possibility, since all the data will be lost.

[Laurent Menase]

better than reboot -q, a TOC will leave the possibility to analyze the problem later with data available, while a reboot -q will give you no clue at all.


And what was the last process you killed before the shutdown continued