Thomas, I don't know if this has changed recently, but I've never been able to reboot from inside a guest os. My reboot and shutdown scripts actually simply have an 'exit' statement in the them. If I need to reboot a guest os, I do it from the host with "vserver <guestname> restart". If you would like to allow your guest os administrators to reboot a guest os without having access to the host system, you could try using one of the web interfaces for vserver such as OpenVCP. You could also just create a simple web page with links for each guest os that calls the appropriate command on the host. John On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Gebhardt Thomas <gebhardt@hrz.uni-marburg.de> wrote: > Hi, > > when I try to reboot a VServer from "inside", the (using reboot -f) > the VServer doesn't reboot. Even worse: the reboot process does > not return (state: D) and can't be killed even from the host system > > myvserver# ps faux > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > root 5656 3.3 0.0 116 40 pts/0 S+ 14:54 0:00 login > root 5681 0.0 0.0 5052 1652 pts/3 Ss 14:54 0:00 > \_ /bin/bash -login > root 5686 0.0 0.0 4504 908 pts/3 R+ 14:54 0:00 \_ ps > faux > root 1 0.4 0.0 1944 660 ? Ss 14:43 0:02 init [2] > root 4888 0.0 0.0 1428 324 ? D 14:48 0:00 reboot -f > > I touched a vshelper logfile on the host. It reads: > > myhost# cat vshelper.log > Wed Mar 19 14:24:25 CET 2008: vshelper restart 1136 > Restarting vserver '/etc/vservers/myvserver' > vserver 'myserver' already running > > My kernel version is 2.6.24.2-vs2.2.0.5.0.7 on debian etch > (util-vserver: 0.30.212-1). > > Thanks for any hint! > Kind regards, Thomas > > -- John Alberts