I had the same problem, sans the modprobe error. It confounded me for some
time, but I finally tracked this down.
Check your /etc/init.d/rc0.d and /etc/init.d/rc6.d directories for links to
killall - mine is S00killall in both directories. On my machine they are
links to ../init.d/killall.
Then check /etc/init.d/rc0.d for a link to halt. Mine is S01halt, and it
links to ../init.d/halt.
Finally, check /etc/init.d/rc6.d for a link to reboot. Mine is S01reboot, and
it links to ../init.d/halt as well because halt serves both to shut down and
to reboot the machine.
All of these links were suddenly missing on my machine - not sure why. I
recreated them, and now it shuts down and reboots fine.
Good luck,
Jay
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On Monday 18 June 2001 17:12, Tom Welsh wrote:
> I have recently have had problems rebooting/shutting down (it was fine for
> a couple of weeks after installing 8.0). The console will freeze with the
> following last two errors:
>
> INIT: no more processes in the this
> runlevel.
> modprobe: cant locate module
> char-major-13.
>
> Basically I cannot type anything at the console. If I switch to a
> different virtual console I will get a login prompt but wont be able to
> type anything in. Also, if I slogin/telnet to the machine, I can get it to
> reboot, but not at the console.
>
> Any Ideas?
>
> Thanks
