The "halt" command no longer works...

I'm assuming it was an update that did this, but the halt command no longer does anything. I can't turn the computer off, restart it, etc.

This is what happens when I try using any of the halt commands....in this example, it's to poweroff:

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localhost josh # halt -p
shutdown: No such file or directory
localhost josh #

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How do I fix this? Now, when I try turning the computer off it doesn't do anything so I'm left holding the power button down to turn it off (which I'd rather not do)


Thanks in advance :D

From the error it can't seem to find the shutdown command, so you could try and find it with

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locate shutdown

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or

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find / -iname shutdown

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and see if it's now outside your $PATH, and if it is add it to your $PATH.

Of course you can try to halt the system with the

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init 0

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command, which will switch you to runlevel 0 which halts the system.

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Originally Posted by dylunio

From the error it can't seem to find the shutdown command, so you could try and find it with

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locate shutdown

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or

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find / -iname shutdown

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and see if it's now outside your $PATH, and if it is add it to your $PATH.

Of course you can try to halt the system with the

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init 0

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command, which will switch you to runlevel 0 which halts the system.

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ok...so i did "locate shutdown" and found a couple of scripts that seem like it may be it:
/etc/init.d/shutdown.sh
/sbin/shutdown_script

of course there were more, but the others didn't seem like THE shutdown script :)...they just seemed like variations of it (kshutdown for example). what should i do? i'm sorry, i don't know which path the $PATH refers to. is that /usr/sbin/, /usr/bin/,...?

Looking at my system shutdown is in /sbin/shutdown, and when I type

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shutdown [options]

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it works since /sbin is in my path as root, as it should be on your system. I find it weird that you seem to have lost yours though.

Maybe the best way to fix this would be to download a stage3 tarball and copying /sbin/shutdown from it?

In the mean while you can come to a halt with

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init 0

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or reboot with

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init 6

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hmmm i halt still...

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halt

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Originally Posted by loft306

hmmm i halt still...

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halt

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Aye, but if your is runlevels 1-5 that just invokes shutdown -h, and josolanes doesn't seem to have shtdown for some weird reason :?

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Originally Posted by dylunio

Looking at my system shutdown is in /sbin/shutdown, and when I type

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shutdown [options]

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it works since /sbin is in my path as root, as it should be on your system. I find it weird that you seem to have lost yours though.

Maybe the best way to fix this would be to download a stage3 tarball and copying /sbin/shutdown from it?

In the mean while you can come to a halt with

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init 0

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or reboot with

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init 6

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well...i renamed the "shutdown_script" to "shutdown" and now shutdown [option] works....but halt [option] still doesn't. i don't know what happend. i have a strong feeling it's because of an update (i'm using the development branch....or have "~x86" in make.conf, so i get all of the unstable packages...maybe that's what caused these problems??)

anyways, now i can atleast use shutdown [option]...i just have to get used to using it rather than halt [option], or maybe i'll just learn to use init [#] as it's even short. i don't know yet....but i'm glad i (kind of) got it fixed :)


thanks for the help/suggestions :D

You could always alias halt to shutdown -h now


Put the alias into root's ~/.bashrc file:

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alias halt='shutdown -h now'

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