Re: Hurd shutdown problems

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Justus Winter wrote:
> > >Have you tried using halt-hurd instead of shutdown? As far as I can
> > >remember, halt-hurd has never caused file system corruption for me,
> > >but I'm pretty sure shutdown did way back when I was still trying
> > >to use it.
> That is correct.  halt-hurd is basically halt -f, which is safe on the
> Hurd, but skips the sysvinit shutdown.  However, we need to figure out
> why this hangs every now and then.

in my personal experience, I had "hangs" when I had a telnet session 
open (I think also ssh.. I shall try again).
Usually all connected clients should get disconnected.
If I power on hurd and then login from consoe and shut it down, it works 
reliably.

Riccardo