[CentOS] HELP: CentOS box won't shutdown

Tue Oct 10 07:29:40 UTC 2006
Clive Gould <clive at ce.bromley.ac.uk>

Hi

We have a mission critical Dell rackmount server.

I tried to reboot it via an ssh session and it just kept running!


The command I used was:

[root at vle tmp]# shutdown -r now

Broadcast message from root (pts/0) (Tue Oct 10 08:28:44 2006):

The system is going down for reboot NOW!


Looking at /var/log/messages it says:

Oct 10 08:28:44 vle shutdown: shutting down for system reboot


But the server just keeps on running!!!

I have an identical hot backup box and it happily rebooted this morning.

Any suggestions most welcome...

Thanks

Clive