Wonder if any of you ever experienced this. I upgraded the kernel on two servers. The servers do not have any problems and everything appears to be fully functional, however they both do not come back from a reboot (/sbin/reboot). We had to go to the data center to restart them. I had actually tried to reboot one of them on purpose and noticed that every time, it didn't come back, I had to manually boot it up.

These servers do not have clients as of right now, but I guess this is important if a reboot is necessary in the future. They both run Linux 7.2 and the new kernel is 2.4.17smp.

Your thoughts and suggestions are appreciated.

Its probably hardware related, i have a server like that as well at pwebtech. I just phone up when i need a reboot done instead of doing /sbin/rebooot.

Originally posted by SplashHost.com
Its probably hardware related

Can't be. These are two servers, both are brand new, there are other two that are identical and don't do this, but they have a slightly different kernel.

Perhaps a certain process is failing to die on shut down and causing the shut down to fail.

Originally posted by ToastyX
Perhaps a certain process is failing to die on shut down and causing the shut down to fail.


Hmmm. That is a good point. I will check killing all processes and trying to reboot.