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Jevgeni Smirnov
Asked: 2012-03-24 01:35:48 +0800 CST

Give root password for maintenance

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After entering

shutdown now

in terminal I get everything running normally and then:

All processes ended withing 2 seconds...done
INIT: Going single user
INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
INIT: Sending processes the KILL signal
Give root password for maintenance(or....

I press Ctrl + D, and it shows me login screen Debian. Shutdown through GUI works properly.

UPDATE 1

It seems some process hangs.

Moreover, I've managed to power off the server through several retries. Recently I've installed only ntp and ntpdate, nothing more.

I suppose it might be it conflicting with iptables.

linux debian

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You need to use the -h switch to halt the system. Default for shutdown is to switch to run level 1 (maintenance). 

    shutdown -h now

    See man shutdown.

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  2. Use the -h option to shutdown to request a halt or a power off instead of just requesting to init that you are going to single user mode (which seems to be the default behaviour)

    shutdown -h now
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  3. shutdown now drops your Debian to maintenance mode. Use shutdown -h now instead.

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  4. You can save some typing by using 'halt' instead of 'shutdown -h now'

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