Topic: cannot find pid of running shutdown

[Geoff Cox]

Hi, all ....

On reboot of an IBM Netfinity Server which belongs to Brad Wright - the same who installed a SmartUPS recently. It is running e-smith 4.1.2, and gets to "Starting ldap" or thereabouts and produces the error:

shutdown:cannot find pid of running shutdown

and shuts itself down, which is most infuriating as Brad can't get it out of this loop. It has been rebooted recently without problem. He thinks it may have something to do with the UPS software.

Any help is most welcome.

[Peter Cahill]

slight update to above post....
during startup on Brad's server, after several services have started, the following message appears   "Starting NTPD:shutdown cannot find PID of running shutdown"
The last successful service to load is XINETD.
thanks for your help.

[Ray Mitchell]

If you think its UPS related have you read Graeme Robinsons contibuted HOWTO and the other docs he refers to. It may help you get your server running again

http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/contrib/UPSHOWTO.txt

To quote
""Another problem you might get if you get the config wrong is the phenomenon of your server shutting down just after it's started up. Try quickly logging in and doing a
shutdown -c
to cancel the shutdown and allow you to modify the config.
If you cannot then:
"try rebooting in single user mode (issue "linux  1"  at  the  LILO  prompt) and disable powstatd by renaming /etc/powstatd.conf to something else. Reboot and you should be able to fix the configuration.+ (from the man file).""

Regards
Ray Mitchell

[Geoff Cox]

Hi, All ...

Many thanks, Ray - you were exactly right.

Thank you for your help.

Kind Regards,
Geoff Cox