[CentOS] CentOs 7.0 and reboot failure

Sun Nov 23 21:31:55 UTC 2014
Edward M <edwardm5000 at gmail.com>

On 11/23/2014 12:20 PM, Thomas Eriksson wrote:
> On 11/23/2014 12:02 PM, Edward M wrote:
>> On 11/23/2014 10:58 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
>>> Everyone,
>>>
>>> I have installed Centos 7.0 on my homework machine in order to take a
>>> test drive with  it, and am low on the learning curve with it at this
>>> point.  I have a small Gateway SX2855-UB12P.
>>>
>>> I have a critical hurdle in that when I try a reboot or when I do a
>>> 'shutdown now -r' command the system will start a reboot process but
>>> hangs right after the os choices are presented.
>>>
>>> My install process started with the server version, and I added the
>>> gnome desktop latter.  I also changed the boot level to 5.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else had this problem, or any suggestions as to a remedy.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Greg Ennis
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>         Centos 7 runs systemd ,so
>>         may need to use 'systemctl reboot' to reboot and 'systemctl
>> poweroff' to shutdown system.
>>          I suggest to read systemctl manpage ( towards the end)
> I think the shutdown command on CentOS 7 already reflects that.
>
> # ls -l /usr/sbin/shutdown
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 16 Oct 23 16:52 /usr/sbin/shutdown ->
> ../bin/systemctl
> # ls -l /usr/sbin/reboot
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 16 Oct 23 16:52 /usr/sbin/reboot -> ../bin/systemctl
>
>

      Thanks for the tip.
       I always use systemctl command,
       was not aware it was  linked.