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Re: [PLUG] wont shut down properly
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What i see just before the system spits back that
'unable to handle kernel null pointer
dereference at virtual address 0000011c' and all the rest of the error
message, is...
'System halted'
then it says
'stopping all md devices'
then BAM! the error
What is an md device and is it significant the error occurs right after it
says it is shutting them down?
I tried to output the shutdown screen out put using 'shutdown -h now >
/shutdown.out'
and
'shutdown -h now &2> shutdown.out'
but in both cases the file was created empty.
-Mike
At 02:07 PM 2/6/00 -0500, you wrote:
Hi all,
With that error message about a null pointer, it might be helpful to see where
the nullpointer is, and which program has one of those dastardly
deamons! Also
with a shutdown -h you should see at the end "system down" or something like
that.
Also, one way to find the culperate is to look in /etc/rc0.d and start to
execute the commands in the shutdown scripts one at a time until he comes up
with the bug. Based on the original message from the person who is having the
problem he might not be able to decipher the output from the shutdown -h now
command.
"Michael C. Toren" wrote:
>
> > Ah... that wouldn't be a normal message to expect.
> >
> > You could try to redirect the output of your shutdown command to a file
> > with: shutdown -h now > shutdown.out
> >
> > I'm not sure if shutdown outputs stdout or stderr.
>
> Actually, neither. Shutdown isn't responsible for the actual work involved
> in shutting down the system; all it does is send a message to init by
calling
> "/sbin/init 0".
>
> The man page for shutdown(1) has additional information.
>
> -mct
>
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