CentOS Server won't reboot when issuing reboot command
You should perform a ps aux
to see if any of the shutdown scripts are hung waiting for a process to finish. It should look something like this:
/etc/rc6.d/K##procname
You can try manually issuing a kill
command for that hung script. Strange though, since there's a timeout set on the scripts where it will force a -KILL
signal to any leftover process.
Also, what's the uptime of the server/box? I've experienced an issue in the past where a box that has an uptime of over a year refuses to shut down. In that case, I've killed each process manually, run sync
several times to flush all data to disk and forced a reboot (power cycle).
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Updated on September 17, 2022Comments
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Mike B almost 2 years
CentOS 5.x
Hi all,
For some reason, my CentOS server didn't want to reboot after I issued the reboot and shutdown -r now commands. All I saw in the /var/log/messages logs were:
Aug 25 13:34:32 voltage-out shutdown[1784]: shutting down for system reboot
Aug 25 13:34:33 voltage-out init: Switching to runlevel: 6
What would cause this? A hung process? How can I best troubleshoot this if it comes up in the future?
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Admin almost 14 years@kenny.r didn't try that. I'll keep that in mind though. Thanks.
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Mike B almost 14 yearsthanks for the tip. That's exactly what I wanted to know. Uptime was over 300+ days
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Aaron Copley over 12 yearsI'm having a similar problem. But once it gets to this point, I don't have a console to check
ps aux
. Any suggestion?