Hi All,

I tried shutdown -h now and halt. Both commands are not working. I get some error in the end, something like -h flag invalid and then init [-lots of flags] message.

Just wondering if anyone else having similar issue. I'll post the exact message when I'm in front of the machine. I am testing nvram-wakeup, but since I cant shut it down, I cant boot it up from the BIOS RTC clock.

Thanks

Mudit

...you did try the "shutdown -h now" command as root right?

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Retired KM user (R4 - R6.04); friend to LH users.

yes, from root.

Can you post the output in the thread?

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Retired KM user (R4 - R6.04); friend to LH users.

Aahhh

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

This is the error message I get at the end. Tried both "sudo halt (user mythtv)" and "halt (user root)"

unknown option -h
usage halt [-n] [-w] [-d] [-f] [-i] [-p]
init: no more process left in this run level

Hmm. I wonder if you performed apt-gets to install suspend-resume related software and ended up replacing some of the standard commands like halt with other versions?

Or perhaps this might be related to noacpi or related lilo kernel options?

-brendan

I did some apt-gets to get nvram-wakeup stuff. Must have done several apt-gets to get latest dbus-1-dev. hald-dev, etc etc. May have got new initscripts and who knows what else.

Halt from the KM R5A15.1 CD does work, both cli and from the frontend. So, I must have overwritten it some where.

Thanks
Mudit

This is my /etc/rc0.d/S90halt file header.



So thats how -h is being passed. Seems like when i upgraded the initscripts, S90halt got upgraded. But the halt command itself didnt change. I dont know which package it belongs to.
For time being I'll simply comment out the -h from there and try it out. That should fix the -h invalid option.