On Aug 26, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Ed W wrote: > Chuck wrote: >> i converted an older guest that was brought up to date with emerege >> world to baselayout2 (our template model) and have a problem in >> shutdown. i get these messages. things are fine until near the end. >> >> * Stopping local ... [ ok ] >> * Stopping vixie-cron ... [ ok ] >> * Saving random seed ... [ ok ] >> * Stopping chrooted named ... [ ok ] >> * Stopping syslog-ng ... [ ok ] >> WARNING: could not determine runlevel - doing soft halt >> (it's better to use shutdown instead of halt from the command line) >> shutdown: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl >> init: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl >> /usr/lib64/util-vserver/vserver.stop: line 96: 9034 >> Killed "${NICE_CMD[@]}" "${CHBIND_CMD[@]}" >> "$_VSPACE" --enter "$S_CONTEXT" "${OPTS_VSPACE[@]}" -- "$_VTAG" -- >> migrate "${OPTS_VTAG_ENTER[@]}" --silent -- $_VCONTEXT $SILENT_OPT >> --migrate --chroot --xid "$S_CONTEXT" -- "${INITCMD_STOP[@]}" >> >> i think the upgrade emerged not only baselayout-2 and openrc but >> also init-0. when i first tried to start it i found itwas missing >> a file >> > > I did not have this problem a month of so ago with open-rc 0.2.3 and > some older udev and I *do* have it now that I have updated all my > vservers to openrc 0.2.5. I had assumed that openrc updates were > responsible, but not tracked that down > > Try reverting openrc to 0.2.3 and see if this fixes things and if so > perhaps a diff to see what caused it? > > Ed W please check /etc/init.d/shutdown.sh and/or reboot.sh, those are part of sysvinit, but should not be overwritten on upgrade, since gentoo/ initpost does the right thing here (which is a script that does `exit 0` and nothing else) Bene