On Saturday, Apr 5, 2003, at 05:44 Australia/Sydney, Pejvan BEIGUI wrote: jmagee@apple.com wrote: <snip> What you asked for [with that shutdown command] was not to reboot the machine, but instead to bring it back down to single-user-mode. Two things of note about that: 1. the un-interruptible process will still be blocked, more than likely, unless the shutdown killed off the facility that it was blocked waiting on (not likely). 2. Mac OS X/Darwin does not like being brought down to single-user mode after it was already running in multi-user-mode. Many of the key system services are implemented in user space. Bringing the system down to single-user-mode killed those off. The IPC messages you see are because you killed off the mach_init process that manages the namespace of public mach ports. But you also killed off the dynamic pager, which manages your swap files, and it doesn't like to get restarted either. You probably wanted "shutdown -r now" where the "-r" is to force a reboot. well, after being unsuccessfull with "sudo shutdown -r now" "sudo reboot" "kill -9 -1" and Apple Menu > Log Out, I tried the "sudo shutdown". Not sure what effect it will have, but you can always try "sudo reboot", or "sudo reboot -q". Not sure if they'll work, but if they do, at least they should flush the FS cache. Cheers, -- Paul Ripke Unix/OpenVMS/TSM/DBA 101 reasons why you can't find your Sysadmin: 68: It's 9AM. He/She is not working that late. -- Koos van den Hout _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.