Re: Reboot - results in unable to detect run level
Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
19 Jun 1996 22:25:43 +0200
In article <9606191915.AA14922@athos.mas.vcu.edu>,
Marko Siladin <msiladin@athos.mas.vcu.edu> wrote:
>In the last couple of weeks I have run into problems with
>rebooting the machine. Sometimes the result of typing
>reboot at the root prompt results in a message that the
>root level cannot be determined and that a hard reset
>will be performed instead. First I thought that the reason
>might me a faulty sysvinit so I upgraded to the latest version
>2.63 - (from 2.57b - whaterver came with Slakware 3.0) but
>the it seems like that did not solve the problem since it
>appeard again today. Any clues where I should look? There
>were no suspicious messges in /var/log/*.
>I'm running all the stuff from Documentation/Changes.
This does not belong in linux.dev.kernel, but oh well. Something is trashing
your /var/run/utmp file, thereby removing/overwriting the runlevel entry.
Just use "shutdown" instead of reboot/halt (eg "shutdown -r now").
Mike.
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