Give root password for maintenance

Posted by Jevgeni Smirnov on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Jevgeni Smirnov
Published on 2012-03-23T09:35:48Z Indexed on 2012/03/23 11:31 UTC
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After entering

shutdown now

in terminal I get everything running normally and then:

All processes ended withing 2 seconds...done
INIT: Going single user
INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
INIT: Sending processes the KILL signal
Give root password for maintenance(or....

I press Ctrl+D, and it shows me login screen Debian. Shutdown through GUI works properly.

UPDATE 1

It seems some process hangs.

Moreover I'v managed to poweroff server through several retries. Recently i'v installed only ntp and ntpdate. Nothing more.

I suppose it might be it conflicting with iptables.

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