Anyway, when I run halt or shutdown I see all the messages relating to the
processes
being stopped. I even see the message I put in right before my "sync" addition.
And
still it seems to go wrong :-(. Might there be a problem with timing. Since my
second partition
is rather big (15GB) perhaps the sync doesn't get enough time and the machine
powers down
before the sync can end. But on the other hand, the sync is not run in the
background
so he should wait anyway. The strange thing is that I didn't have this on my
previous
pc altough it was running the same version of Debian.
Nico
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 06:25:51PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:29:23PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:35:28PM +0100, Nico De Ranter ([EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > Howdy,
> > >
> > > I just got a new computer and installed Debian on it (ofcourse :-).
> > > The installation uses 2 partitions, 1 of 5GB and 1 of 15GB (hey I have
> > > to do something with all that diskspace don't I :-). I did the same
> > > install as I always did starting from the Debian 2.2 cd's. However
> > > with the new PC every time I boot Linux will complain the filesystems
> > > weren't properly unmounted and will do a full check of the
> > > filesystems. I do ofcourse always make sure to turn off the machine
> > > by typing "halt".
> >
> > This is your problem. Try:
> >
> > $ shutdown -h now
>
> I don't think so -- man halt:
>
> NOTES
> Under older sysvinit releases , reboot and halt should
> never be called directly. From release 2.74 on halt and
> reboot invoke shutdown(8) if the system is not in runlevel
> 0 or 6. This means that if halt or reboot cannot find out
> the current runlevel (for example, when /var/run/utmp
> hasn't been initialized correctly) shutdown will be
> called, which might not be what you want. Use the -f flag
> if you want to do a hard halt or reboot.
>
> At least it works as advertised here; same for "reboot". I think this
> has been the case for some time under linux.
>
> --
> Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
>
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