On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:55:39PM -0800, Francesco Pietra wrote: > I wonder whether a bug should be placed. If so, which > files should accompany it. > > amd64 etch, debian raid1, on dual-opteron machine. > > During heavy mathematical computation largely based on > libimf.so (no X installed), overnigth application > halted reporting unclassified error (bug placed to the > non-debian application). > > Changed terminal, read (cat) files, then > #shutdown -h now > failed to shutdown the system. Last portion of the > screen dealt with: > ---mdadm monitor > ---APC UPS power management > ---Klogd > ---syslogd > ---portmap daemon > ---ifdowncleaned > ---deactivate swap > > then, literally: > > Will now umount local filesystem: could not find > /dev/.static/dev in mtab > /dev/.static/dev umounted > /dev/md0 umounted > > Halted at that. The machine allowed to change > terminal, to ask for a new user, though no username > could be printed from any terminal, and the original > one did not respond. Ctrl-Alt-Delete was nor accepted. > I could only switch off power. > > On restart this morning, evrything looks like OK after > a forced (by the system) scan of all partitions, > because it had been mounted more that 30 times. > > Thanks a lot for your kind attention.
Hmm, I am trying to remember what halted behaves like. I would not expect it to clear the terminals, although I would expect them to not really do anything useful anymore since the getty that was running on them is gone. I tend to use 'poweroff' personally so that it actually turns off when done shutting down. Shutting down but staying on doesn't seem very useful to me. control+alt+delete not working does seem odd, unless it is a usb keyboard, in which case it is expected I think since the bios emulates the keyboard interface for usb, until the kernel boots and takes over by disabling the emulation, and I doubt it reenables it at halt, so a usb keyboard would be dead for the most part at that point (although you said you could switch terminals). Perhaps there simply isn't a control+alt+delete handler left at that point. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
