Cannot Shut Down DSL

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Cannot Shut Down DSL
started by: Ankuryu

Posted by Ankuryu on Nov. 29 2006,08:41

Hi, I have Installed DSL onto the Hard Disk, of a Pentium 1 with 130 Mb Ram.

I had some starting/closing problems when it booted directly into X windows. I changed it to text mode, as I was primarily using it for Samba Print / file Server.

However when I try to shut down the computer using a variety of commands such as

shutdown now /0
halt now
init 6

I have problems. Sometimes the thing changes to runlevel 0 and then awaits some input from the keyboard. At time when I press Enter Key once or twice it proceeds to another run level and finally arrives at DSL halted. But at other times it keeps accepting keyboard inputs and shows them on the screen as CTRL characters and refuses to shut down, I have to later on switch it off and go throught the fsk thing.

Please can anyone guide me why this is happening so ?

:laugh:

Posted by Juanito on Nov. 29 2006,12:33

Try this:

sudo exitcheck.sh shutdown

or

sudo exitcheck.sh reboot

Posted by Ankuryu on Nov. 30 2006,11:48

thanks a lot
I gave the command

Quote

sudo /usr/local/bin/exitcheck.sh

and I got

.
.
The system is going down for system HALT NOW !!
INIT: switching to runlevel : 0
INIT: sending processes the TERM Signal
INIT: sending processes the KILL Signal
free : no such file or Directory
Please mount media containing optional dir and try again

then the computer waits for your keystroke input, however all the keystrokes appear as control characters.

I can switch between virtual screens using ALT F1 - F6
however my keyboard input is not recognised in the rest of the virtual screens.

I ask from where did this 'free' thing come and in which file is it residing ? Can I find it out ?

Someone Help Please

Posted by Ankuryu on Nov. 30 2006,12:06

It seems that this shutdown problem occurs every alternate times. LIke once it shall shutdown normally, next time it shall create a problem and when I switch it off the fchk thing come on. and once more after that it shall shut down properly , but next time it will not

Any Ideas ?

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 30 2006,15:32

I usually use shutdown -h now

but it seems that something (else) is wrong?

Posted by Ankuryu on Dec. 01 2006,09:40

friends I have found out from where that 'free' comes from
which is causing so much of a problem
seems the file in /etc/sysconfig/mydsl contains
'free' upteen times. the file lenght as shown is 72320. That shows that the file has corrupted. Now I want to know what this file should contain ?

Anyone can help me.

Cause this is 'mydsl' I cannot expect to get information from anywhere else except this forum.

Posted by roberts on Dec. 01 2006,15:55

That is the cloop map file. It is used for all mount type extensions.
That map file is re-generated upon each boot to a pristine state.

If you are experiencing corruption within a single use session that would suggest hardware, disk drive, issues.

Have you recently used fsck on the drive?

The other possibility is that you are using an old v1.x version of DSL which at one time had a bug concerning the map file.

If you are still using v1.x PLEASE upgrade to the latest.
Many new features as well as bug fixes have occured. See Notes section for past change logs.