[SOLVED] shutdown not working?

[mockturtl]

2.6.32-5-amd64, plain old wheezy

Since a recent upgrade (Thursday 3/24/2011, early evening EDT/-0400 UTC), restarting from mintmenu "Quit" does not fully reboot the system. X stops, and I see the runlevel 6 shutdown messages... and then services immediately restart, without kicking me back to the BIOS splash and GRUB.

I get the same behavior with

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# shutdown -r now

I have to power down to see a "full" reboot.

Any guesses what might be responsible? Are other people seeing it?

[richyrich]

Nope, won't even guess. You may find something related by seeing which files were updated on that date. Either view>history in Mint's Update Manger, or file>history in Synaptic. Anything look suspicious ?

[lepadatu.lucian]

Look for "kexec" in Synaptic to see whether you have it installed or not. I use the unstable(sid) repositories and a few weeks ago it was automatically installed during an update. Kexec allows "live" booting of a new kernel "over" the currently running kernel, avoiding a full reboot.

So you can simply remove it and the restart button will work like before.

[exploder]

Thanks lepadatu.lucian! I just installed Mint Debian and put on over 700 updates... I could reboot but it was slow and showed gdm before rebooting, removing kexec solved the problem. Thanks again!

[lepadatu.lucian]

You welcome

[mockturtl]

There she is, right on schedule.

Fix:

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# apt-get remove kexec-tools

Thanks guys!