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AIX box is hung on Shutdown cannot kill process 1

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Mpolo

IS-IT--Management
Aug 17, 2008
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I have tried to kill all processes to no avail, also restarted the server manualy, once it came back on the shutdown is hung-up at "Running" cant cancel or run backup

S 08/16/08 12:01A RUNNING OPR SHUTDOWN X

any ideas?
 
Have a green blinking light and an amber exclamation mark blinking.
 
You are saying that you can't shutdown right? Does this mean that you can't boot the machine as well? If you can boot the machine then try to see if you recieve any error messages while booting. Try to view the errpt report. IMHO I'm not sure why you have a green blinking light but usually an amber light indicates a hardware error!

To view the boot log:


For any future troubleshooting for AIX:


and here is all error LEDs that you might get to be translated:


Regards,
Khalid
 
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