On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 05:12:24PM -0400, Raul Gutierrez Segales wrote:
Does anybody has an idea why I am not able remotely reboot my server with ssh or telnet. The thing is that the keyboard and the graphic display card are dead. I have been looking lots of way to do this but havent found. I have tried as root from telnet and ssh the following commands: init 0 init 6 shutdown -r now halt poweroff
and none of them worked.
I guess you no longer have this problem, but since I deal with Linux boxes around the globe daily, I figured I'd give my own experiences with this in case it helps out other people. Every time I've seen a machine in this state, I've been able to do a 'ps ax | grep reboot' (or halt, or shutdown, or whatever) and find a line that looks like: 17356 ? D 0:00 reboot The 'D' means 'uninterruptible sleep', which implies (correctly) that that process isn't ever going to finish. You can't even kill -9 it. Often, a 'reboot -f' will work (that says "don't call shutdown, force reboot".) -tara