Give root password for maintenance
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Published on 2012-03-23T09:35:48Z
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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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