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Andrew Case
Asked: 2011-10-07 13:27:23 +0800 CST

System Claims to be Rebooting without Shutdown Running

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When I try to connect to a host either locally or remotely the machine denies logins thinking that the shutdown command has been initiated:

[~]$ ssh somehost
The system is going down for reboot in 1 minute!
This machine requires an immediate reboot. 

Connection closed by somehost

But the machine never goes down and no shutdown command is running:

[root@somehost ~]# shutdown -c
shutdown: Cannot find pid of running shutdown

If I reboot the host using the shutdown or reboot commands, the machine reboots just fine, but once it comes back up it still thinks the machine is going down for reboot in 1 minute. How do I stop it from being in a shutdown mode state?

linux

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    somehost$ sudo rm /etc/nologin

    This file probably exists and prevents further logins from happening, causing the above behaviour.

    When a login is rejected, the contents of that file are used as the explanation why.

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