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How to cleanly shut down when things go wrong
shutdown now was doing exactly what it was supposed to do, but not what you wanted (i.e., turn the computer off). From man shutdown:
A terminate signal is then sent to init to bring the system down to single-user state (depending on above options).
What you needed to do is
If you do a
Normally, the
The implication is that Remember, the man pages are your friends...
How to cleanly shut down when things go wrong
Is there an easy way to get back up from single user mode?
If so you could just do a
shutdown now and then excute the command that would bring it back up again.... Viola! Quick reboot! ;)
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