From: krouth@slee01.srl.ford.com (Kevin Routh) Subject: Re: "broken pipe" on shutdown/reboot/halt??? Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 12:50:20 GMT
cteague@ra.cs.umb.edu (Charles F. Teague II) writes:
:
: Now, when I try to shutdown linux, I get the normal shutdown output
: up to the point where it should say "Now you can turn off the power".
: Instead of that, I get "broken pipe", and the system is still active (ie,
: no reboot/halt/shutdown) I thought I might have messed up these commands,
Yes, mine does the same thing. What I do is log out all my pseudo terms
and then log into one as user "sync" once or twice. I then give the
three finger salute (Ctrl-Alt-Del) and it reboots. I assume this is
safe because it syncs the filesystems. I think your /etc/passwd file
has a user named "sync" with no password which uses the sync command as
it's shell. If not, it's easy to set it up.