the act of stopping & starting a process, or rebooting an entire PC.
4
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6answers
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Cannot restart, reboot, nor shutdown Ubuntu 11.04
I cannot restart, reboot or shut-down my PC using Natty.
Whenever I hit shut-down, restart or in terminal sudo reboot it shows a black screen.
If I should press down the power button for while, it ...
1
vote
2answers
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How to avoid “Assuming drive cache: write through” message during restart? [closed]
Does anyone know how to avoid message:
Assuming drive cache: write through
Showing up after preforming sudo shutdown -r now.
I restarted remotely but the computer did not restart. And I could ...
10
votes
1answer
6k views
“System restart required” flag, who sets it and why? How to read it? [duplicate]
When you log into Ubuntu (10.04 in my case), you get to see this notice saying:
*** System restart required ***
Now, I'm wondering what system component sets it and why it gets set? Using ksplice ...
7
votes
1answer
247 views
ALT+SysRq+REISUB hangs at “resetting” (without actually resetting/restarting)
I'm trying Alt + SysRq + REISUB to see how it would be used to restart my system safely in case of emergency.
However, I find that Alt + SysRq + REISUB hangs at "resetting" (without actually ...
2
votes
1answer
434 views
HDD does not mount when restarting
I have two external HDD attached to my PC which start normally when I turn on the PC. When I restart (after an update for example) one of the two drives does not mount, always the same drive. It has ...
24
votes
3answers
6k views
How can I tell what package requires a reboot of my system?
I have unattended-upgrade set up on my Ubuntu systems. Occasionally I will log in remotely to one of them and I'll see a message informing me that I need to reboot the system (in order to complete ...
0
votes
1answer
736 views
Squid Proxy Problem to arised after update
When I restart squid web proxy service, I receive the following errors. What are these errors?
/etc/init.d/squid restart
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
...
5
votes
3answers
1k views
Shutdown / restart does not complete [closed]
Sometimes when I try to shut-down or restart, I get an error saying:
A program is still running: Unknown Not Responding
It gives three choices
Lock Screen
Cancel
Reboot anyway (or Shutdown Anyway)
...
