[systemd-devel] Fwd: Re: Seeking Advice on debugging failure to reboot

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Mon Oct 10 13:15:55 PDT 2011


On Thu, 06.10.11 15:03, Clyde E. Kunkel (clydekunkel7734 at cox.net) wrote:

> >We have got a bit further along using netconsole to see the kmsg
> >after systemd turns off syslog.
> >....
> >
> >The obvious difference between a reboot that works and one that
> >fails is that I see these lines in the good case:
> >..
> >[  135.391206] systemd[1]: final.target changed dead ->  active
> >[  135.391217] systemd[1]: Job final.target/start finished, result=done
> >[  135.391249] systemd[1]: About to execute: /bin/systemctl --force
> >reboot


If you get that far it's most likely a kernel problem. There were a
number of issues with some newer boards reported in rhbz. It's
surprisingly hard to reboot/poweroff a machine.

Lennart

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