[plug] Random troubleshooting (half upgraded knoppix).

[Cameron Patrick]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:14:24AM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
| In message <Pine.LNX.4.58.0312150025260.27687 at guildpc7.murdoch.edu.au>
| on Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 02:11:46AM +0800, Pabs wrote:
| > When I do a halt/shutdown, init sez at the end of the sequence:
| > INIT: no more processes left at this runlevel
| > it used to just poweroff, can anyone shed some light?
| 
| My initial guess is:
| 
| What do you expect it to say?

Either "system halted" or "power down" - the latter usually accompanied
shortly afterwards by the system switching itself off, if it is capable
of doing so and the correct black magic^W^W kernel options are enabled.

| UNIX 'shutdown' typically brings the system to single-user mode (i.e.
| on a multi-user system, the most likely reason for 'shutting down' is
| to patch the system or repair a filesystem, not to turn the power
| off). Maybe there's a poweroff command or something <shrug/>.

The 'halt' command (or shutdown -h) on i386 leaves the system in a dead
state: nothing but the power down or reset switch does anything.  On an
Alpha it takes you to the firmware console.  If you just do a shutdown
(without -h for 'halt' or -p for 'poweroff') you will end up in single
user mode.

Cameron.