Questions tagged [halt]
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Windows Server Manager stuck on 'Display will be complete when the server inventory has finished...'
I cannot access Storage Pools in Server Manager because it seems that it's stuck on 'Display will be complete when the server inventory has finished...'. The little blue bar up top keeps running, so it's probably doing something. I have tried…
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What's the difference between halt and shutdown now?
halt can turn off the machine,
but shutdown now doesn't turn off ,it just logs the root off.
Anyone knows the reason?
yum
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Best way to execute a command after Linux system halt
Problem:
The SSDs in our servers require a power cycle (i.e. off/on, not reset/warm reboot) after a firmware update.
Thoughts:
Using 'ipmitool chassis power cycle' I can cycle the server's power. However this would cut the power while the system is…
Lukas Loesche
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booting halts due to new disks being connected
I have a Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 motherboard with the latest BIOS flashed in (version F13).
I also have 4x sata disks (in proven working condition) from a different server. Two of them are Western Digital ATA WDC WD1003FBYZ-0 and the other 2 the (very…
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Intermittent switch failure and data flooding, hardware capacity?
We are using a switch (ZIO-SW500) connected to the building main network and we suffers from intermittent network halt.
Normally the network works well.
But, sometimes traffic designated to other IPs floods in and our network halts for a while…
Seungpyo Hong
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Any downside when shutting down EC2 instances of an auto-scaling group?
I want EC2 instances to auto-terminate after 24h.
I do this with a script that is executed at instance launch:
shutdown | at now + 24 hours
The instance shuts down and the EBS volumes are terminated when the instance is terminated, so that's…
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yum halts after installing 7 packages on centos container
I was curious about containers, so decided to give it a try. Prepared a server as host with a fresh install of CentOS 7, installed lxc and lxc-templates and configured a bridge interface.
I've created a centos container, everything worked fine,…
user202937
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KVM guest halt to make the host kvm exit
I'm running Linux inside kvm. When I issue the halt command as root in the guest, eventually the guest halts with the kernel log message System halted.. However, the kvm host process keeps running. Is it possible to make it exit upon halt?
This…
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What can you do when auditd halts the system?
I recently had an issue where my server powered off in the middle of running a script, seemingly randomly, but at about the same point each time, and then whenever I tried to power the server on again it would start the start up process and then…
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Halt goes into uninterruptable state while shutting down - how can I shut down?
I have had a hard drive failure which has caused a lot of processes to go into an uninterruptable state ("D" state in ps- See this question). I cannot kill these processes, so I wish to shut down, but unfortunately halt is also now showing as "D"…
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Prevent EC2 machine from halt, poweroff, shutdown
EC2 Ubuntu servers erase all disk contents when being shut down. Following an unfortunate accident, I have decided to prevent the command-live halt, poweroff and shutdown.
What's the best way to do it? I thought about renaming these commands (at…
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Halt, not power down, a windows server
A client recently changed their UPS and now claims that their server is not coming back up after am extended power outage. They have tested their system and it will keep the last state, so if the power is removed while on, it will automatically…
Dude named Ben
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