Unable to shutdown Fedora 10

[MacW]

Running Fedora 10 and it worked ok up until a couple of days ago. Since then unable to shutdown using the System shutdown tab or the restart tab.

Tried using the shutdown -r now command as root but it says the shutdown command unknown. No sign of the shutdown command in the /sbin/ directory.

Anyone any ideas? as the only way out is to turn the power off.

MacW

[devils casper]

Running Fedora 10 and it worked ok up until a couple of days ago. Since then unable to shutdown using the System shutdown tab or the restart tab.

Tried using the shutdown -r now command as root but it says the shutdown command unknown. No sign of the shutdown command in the /sbin/ directory.

Anyone any ideas? as the only way out is to turn the power off.

MacW

Hi and Welcome !

How did you gain root privileges in Terminal?
Execute this

su -
/sbin/shutdown -h now

Make sure to type hyphen ( - ) with su.

[MacW]

Hi and Welcome !

How did you gain root privileges in Terminal?
Execute this

su -
/sbin/shutdown -h now

Make sure to type hyphen ( - ) with su.

I did that and it came back with

bash: /sbin/shutdown: No such file or directory

Did have a look in the sbin folder but no sign of shutdown file

Any more suggestions?

Ta

MacW

[devils casper]

Moved posts of nujinini to this new thread. I would suggest nujinini to continue there only.

[MacW]

Hi
It would appear that the shutdown, reboot and halt commands have gone away, departed to the great depository in the sky. Is there any way one can extract the shutdown file from the installation disc? or from anywhere else for that matter?

Ta MacW

[rituraj.goswami]

use "showdown" if you are a non previledged user. does the samething.

[MacW]

Hi

Tried the showdown command but it came back with

bash: showdown: command not found

Like I say all these commands like shutdown, reboot and Halt have gone, do not know why or how they went but gone they have. So if you have any ideas as to how one gets them back, would be happy.

Ta MacW

[meton_magis]

su -
init 0


If that doesn't work

su -
halt


if that doesn't work, do

su -
halt -f

this WILL work, but is not something you want to do.


those SHOULD work, but something is very wrong if you're shutdown file is missing in fedora. It could indicate a virus or rootkit. Have you installed any suspicious software as root lately?

[jayd512]

bash: showdown: command not found

I just want to make sure that was a typo. But if shutdown doesn't work, have you tried

/sbin/shutdown

[MacW]

meton_magis

init 0 does try and shut system down but tries to find the halt command but says it does not exist, and running the halt command returns the information that halt command does not exist. I can find no reference to the following command reboot, shutdown, halt in sbin folder. The only software I have installed is the updates to the system and that was done about 1 week prior to the problem becoming apparent. I understand rootkit problems are hard to decode and require an intimate knowledge of the underlying operating system, which is probably beyond my capabilities.
Are there any programs about which can easily detect rootkit problems?

jayd512

I thought showdown was bit odd but gave it a go in case it was a command I had not heard about.
/sbin/ shutdown does not work. See above.



MacW