system will not shutdown

[Chuq Von Rospach]

In article <93600004 at siemens.UUCP> jcc at siemens.UUCP writes:
>	Shutdown starts, gives back its pid number, then just hangs there
>	forever.  A "ps" of the pid shows the state "I <".  Has anyone
>	else had this problem?  Is /etc/shutdown waiting for a resource it
>	can not get?  As always, all suggestions or comments are welcomed.

I've seen this occasionally. What seems to be happening is that the 'wall'
that shutdown does hangs on a terminal for some reason and doesn't ever
complete, and the shutdown never moves beyond that. I'm not sure why it 
should hang on the wall (^Q?) and I've never been motivated to find it--
that is what 'kill 1 1' is for...

chuq

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