Re: shutdown -r not rebooting

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 01:36:05PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> Since a couple of weeks (I'm not sure exactly when), 'shutdown -r now'
> doesn't reboot any longer for me.
> 
> It writes the usual detach messages but then stops with
> atabus12: detached
> rebootin
> 
> and that's it.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this?

Yes - oddly just on an ivy bridge desktop. I have the hard to quantify
impression that if I do a /etc/rc.d/xdm stop first, things work correctly...

Cheers,

Patrick