[plug] Random troubleshooting (half upgraded knoppix).

[James Devenish]

In message <20031215030940.GC11356 at erdos.home>
on Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:09:40AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> | What do you expect it to say?
> 
> Either "system halted" or "power down"

Those sounds like messages from the kernel (rather than, say, 'halt' or
'init').

> | 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.

So what does Pabs' situation sound like...init's taking the system down
to 'runlevel 0' and spitting out the 'no more processes left at this
runlevel' message (which doesn't sound untoward in itself), but the halt
is not occurring in the kernel? Cameron, do you normally see the 'no
more processes left at this runlevel' message (it comes from the init.c
that's found in woody's copy of the sysvinit package)?