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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!dxcern!tifrvax.tifr.res.in!bhiksha From: bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in Subject: RE: NetBSD 0.9: Cant Idle init.. Message-ID: <20JAN94.09060310@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> Sender: news@dxcern.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research References: <17JAN94.15142820@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> <2hisc2$hf5@olivaw.apanix.apana.org.au> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 09:06:03 GMT Lines: 24 In a previous article, hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart) wrote: >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. > Oh yes, all this WAS done by root! On the console (i dont even su). The problem doesnt always happen; just about 4 times out of 5.. bhiksha