unable to shutdown L Class HPUX server

[kholikt]

Hi,

I am having problem with one of our L class server. When I issued a reboot command, the machine will reboot fine. But if I use a shutdown -h now command, after I saw the 0 buffer to flush message, the machine just halt there.

Last time, I will see other message tell me to reset or I can turn off the power.

What could be the possible solution? Anyhelp will be appreciated. I am running HPUX 11.00 with hardware and general patch applied

[Philip Chan_1 · Accepted solution]

Did you issue the shutdown command in the LAN/Web console last time? and that this time you shutdown the machine in a normal telnet session? You don't supposed to see the reset or power off messages if you don't shutdown from a console.

~Philip

[kholikt]

but I shutdown from a console that attached to the server directly. Last time I have done the exactly same thing but I will be able to see the message to ask me turn off the power.

[Joseph C. Denman]

shutdown with the -h option halts the system. use the -r option

ie shutdown -r 0