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From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD 0.9: Cant Idle init..
Date: 19 Jan 1994 19:22:18 +1030
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bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in writes:
>When ever i try to reboot my NetBSD machine, or shut it down, or even
>kill 1, i get the message: cant idle init
>or that there are a few process left, do ps axl
>I just cant seem to kill these things.
>Also, (and perhaps because of this), when ever i reboot the machine i get
>hanging inodes during the fsck which are cleared and the machine reboots
>a second time correctly.
>What could the problem be?
make sure you are root when you do try and shutdown, the hanging inodes
are a result of the system not being shutdown cleanly, which you are
obviously not doing if the kernel is saying it cant idle init.
Only root can shutdown, unless you modify the permissions of shutdown.
Cheers
Leigh
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