[Nix-dev] Halting on mips - troubles

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 08/25/2010 09:19 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:

> the shutdown sequence fails in the Fuloong MiniPCs. I don't know why.
> 
> When I kill that 'bash -e /proc/self/fd/8', the halt sequence continues. Any idea of what happens?

Probably there is an Upstart job hanging in its "start" state.  For instance,
PostgreSQL does a "sleep 1" in a loop in its post-start script.  It might also
be autofs (if you're running that), since it seems to do a "sleep 1" in its
pre-stop script.  Can you do an "initctl list"?

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