init: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl

[pattonia]

I am having trouble rebooting my system. I was upgrading my Linux Mint Xfce to service pack 4, when I ran out of disk space on my root partition, leaving me with an incomplete install. I have access to the desktop and applications, but I cannot shutdown to boot from an ISO DVD to resize my partition and free up disk space. Any attempt to reboot results in a logout. When I attempt a full shutdown from the command line, I get this error:

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sudo shutdown now
Broadcast message from root@arctic-gis1 (pts/0) (Thu Apr 12 10:33:47 2012):
The system is going down to maintenance mode NOW!
shutdown: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl
init: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl

I'm not sure what packages are affected to cause this error, or what I may have to reinstall. Any ideas on how to solve this??

~ Eric.

[Oscar799]

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[äxl]

A quick search mentions that this could be a one time thing.
http://www.mail-archive.com/pkg-sysvini ... 04348.html

[...]which means first reboot can't be done cleanly.

They talk about fixing this after version 2.88dsf-19
2.88dsf-22 comes with UP4 and I have no problem.

First you should do a backup.
Have you tried

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halt

or

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init 0

to shutdown and

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reboot

or

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init 6

[pattonia]

Thanks for the hints. I tried halt, init 6, init 0, reboot and they all give the same error.

I have managed to free some disk space on / , so I should be able to remove and re-install packages, if that helps.

[äxl]

Complete install is of course to favour before you hard start.

I only then would try the commands a last time with the -f (force) option.

[pattonia]

I think I may have a little more information to shed light on my problem...I was updating mintsystem using mintupdate, and I received the following error when the updates were being applied:

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(Reading database ... 262238 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace debian-system-adjustments 2012.04.9.2 (using .../debian-system-adjustments_2012.04.18_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement debian-system-adjustments ...
Preparing to replace mint-artwork-debian 2012.04.05 (using .../mint-artwork-debian_2012.04.18_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mint-artwork-debian ...
Preparing to replace mintmenu 5.3.1 (using .../mintmenu_5.3.2_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mintmenu ...
Preparing to replace mintsystem 7.7.9 (using .../mintsystem_7.8.0_all.deb) ...
update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
insserv: warning: script 'K10halt' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'halt' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: script old_halt_Apr12_2012: service halt already provided!
insserv: There is a loop between service umountfs and halt if stopped
insserv:  loop involving service halt at depth 6
insserv:  loop involving service umountroot at depth 5
insserv: There is a loop between service umountfs and halt if stopped
insserv:  loop involving service umountfs at depth 5
insserv:  loop involving service networking at depth 4
insserv: There is a loop between service halt and umountroot if stopped
insserv:  loop involving service umountnfs at depth 30
Unpacking replacement mintsystem ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0 ...
Setting up debian-system-adjustments (2012.04.18) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/skel/.mozilla/firefox/mwad0hks.default/prefs.js ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/linuxmint/adjustments/15-firefox.overwrite ...
Setting up mint-artwork-debian (2012.04.18) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/skel/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list ...
Setting up mintmenu (5.3.2) ...
Setting up mintsystem (7.8.0) ...
update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
insserv: warning: script 'K29halt' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'halt' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: script old_halt_Apr12_2012: service halt already provided!
insserv: There is a loop between service umountfs and halt if stopped
insserv:  loop involving service halt at depth 6
insserv:  loop involving service umountroot at depth 5
insserv: There is a loop between service umountfs and halt if stopped
insserv:  loop involving service umountfs at depth 5
insserv:  loop involving service networking at depth 4
insserv: There is a loop between service halt and umountroot if stopped
insserv:  loop involving service umountnfs at depth 24
insserv: exiting now without changing boot order!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing mintsystem (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
configured to not write apport reports
                                      Errors were encountered while processing:
 mintsystem
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up mintsystem (7.8.0) ...
update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
insserv: warning: script 'K29halt' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'halt' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: script old_halt_Apr12_2012: service halt already provided!
insserv: There is a loop between service umountfs and halt if stopped
insserv:  loop involving service halt at depth 6
insserv:  loop involving service umountroot at depth 5
insserv: There is a loop between service umountfs and halt if stopped
insserv:  loop involving service umountfs at depth 5
insserv:  loop involving service networking at depth 4
insserv: There is a loop between service halt and umountroot if stopped
insserv:  loop involving service umountnfs at depth 24
insserv: exiting now without changing boot order!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing mintsystem (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mintsystem

Does anyone have any idea how to go about fixing this problem?

~ Eric.

[äxl]

There's something very wrong with your services.

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insserv: warning: script 'K10halt' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'halt' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: script old_halt_Apr12_2012: service halt already provided!
insserv: warning: script 'K29halt' missing LSB tags and overrides

I only have K12halt in /etc/rc0.d/. It's last in that folder. Do you also have 'halt' in that folder?
sysvinit, sysvinit-utils and sysv-rc were updated with UP4. Could you reinstall these please and if asked take the maintainer's version.

mintsystem shouldn't be the problem. It's only triggering update.rc-d thus it's showing the errors.
Also look:
http://wiki.debian.org/OffAndOnAgain
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-co ... vices.html

[pattonia]

There's something very wrong with your services.

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insserv: warning: script 'K10halt' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'halt' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: script old_halt_Apr12_2012: service halt already provided!
insserv: warning: script 'K29halt' missing LSB tags and overrides

I only have K12halt in /etc/rc0.d/. It's last in that folder. Do you also have 'halt' in that folder?
sysvinit, sysvinit-utils and sysv-rc were updated with UP4. Could you reinstall these please and if asked take the maintainer's version.

mintsystem shouldn't be the problem. It's only triggering update.rc-d thus it's showing the errors.
Also look:
http://wiki.debian.org/OffAndOnAgain
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-co ... vices.html

I checked my halt, and it was set to a symlink to /bin/true; weird, I have no idea why that was. I replaced it with a true script version of halt, and that seems to have fixed my problems.

Thanks for help anyway,

~ Eric.