🚀 go-pugleaf

Andrew Mather wrote:
> Following a system crash, something seems to have gone awry.  Now,
> when I run my Slackware 3.0 system and try to shut it down nicely, I
> get "Shutdown already running ".
> 
> I have tried "shutdown -c", as given in the options for shutdown, but
> it doesn't work.  The 3 finger salute (Ctrl-Alt-Del) also gives the
> same message.  "Halt" is the same.

I had that problem frequently with Slackware 3.0 myself.  I found that
running (as root) /etc/rc.d/rc.6 would do a good enough job of shutting
down the system; but I heard from somebody else that there was an even
better way than that.  I'll contact him and get him to add to this post.

> If I just turn it off , it has to check itself and "parallelize" for a
> few mins or so before it boots up.  I'm sure repeated shutting down in
> this nasty manner won't do it any good.

Never good to shutdown like that.  At least do a 'sync' immediately
before pressing the reset button.  To be even more on the safe side,
unmount all non-root filesystems as well.

Best regards,
Tom Atkinson