On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 15:42 -0500, William Perkins wrote: > I have two systems with which I am having problems during a shutdown or > reboot. Both are x86_64 systems running Fedora-18 (Spherical Cow). In > both cases the systems will panic before the shutdown or reboot process > is completed and system restarts or powers off. This is a problem because > the system that controls the UPS must poweroff to shutdown the UPS during > a power failure. If it does not, the UPS powers off after the batteries > run down. This is not good for the UPS. > > Anyway, this problem will occurs on either of these systems after some > time has been spent working on them: running X, Firefox, Liferea, LibreOffice, > etc... If you than shutdown apps, close windows and terminate the window > manager (FVWM), and than do a shutdown or reboot from the command line. > the system will panic before the shutdown/reboot is done with the > following sampled lines: > > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000100 > Pid: 1, comm: shutdown Not tainted 3.7.9-205.fc18.x86_64 #1 I have a similar problem (see the recent discussion on this list titled "System doesn't shut down properly under Fedora-18". The disks aren't synced; but there is no panic message in /var/log/messages. jon -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org