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| Dimitri Pappas (fragtion) wrote 'reboot now' reverting to maintenance mode | #0 |
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A forum thread has been opened first, describing the problem. For reference, that forum thread can be found here: http://
Quote:
When the command "reboot now" is issued:
root@server:~# reboot now
Broadcast message from root@server
(/dev/pts/0) at 00:00 ...
The system is going down to maintenance mode NOW!
A few moments later.. SSHd is killed, but the box responds to pings (Inaccessible remotely unless a hard-reset is performed)
* Asking all remaining processes to terminate...
* Killing all remaining processes... [fail]
* Will now switch to single-user mode
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):
Just "reboot", and it works fine
root@server:~# reboot
Broadcast message from root@server
(/dev/pts/0) at 00:00 ...
The system is going down for reboot NOW!
Some distro's require a time / 'now' as an argument, and thus I became accustomed to performing my reboots in this way. Now it seems to be a potential trap that causes the machine not to reboot, which is especially painful if we're talking about a headless/hosted dedicated server. Even if ubuntu doesn't like 'reboot now' syntax, I still can't understand why "reboot now" should bring the box to console maintenance mode anyway - perhaps it should rather return an error, or syntax help
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: upstart 1.8-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.9.0-030900rc8
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 29 13:22:02 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-12-11 (870 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: upstart
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-26 (3 days ago)
UpstartBugCategory: System