Questions tagged [halt]
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Halt purpose: What does "you can perform low level maintenance" mean?
About halt in Linux in these places:
What is the difference between the shutdown, halt and reboot commands?
Understanding Shutdown, Poweroff, Halt and Reboot Commands in Linux
What is halt command in ...
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Halt execution of pasted multiline commands
I pasted a long list of commands into Bash, and in the middle of execution, I decided I wanted it to stop. Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+C did nothing. It just continues executing line after line. In the end, the ...
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KDE system unexpectedly halts and reboots
I'm having issues trying to understand why my system randomly halts or reboots. Here are the specs of my system, retrieved using neofetch:
.-/+oossssoo+/-.
`:+ssssssssssssssssss+:` ...
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Why it is possible for normal users to power off computer? [duplicate]
I used the command poweroff and unexpectedly the system went off. I didn't used sudo therefore I didn't expect computer to be turned off. Why it was possible for me to use this command without root ...
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Debian10 Touchpad in basic mode after halt
I run Debian 10/Gnome on a Lenovo Y2P, so far without problem. In particular uname -a yields:
Linux deepthought 4.19.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.160-2 (2020-11-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Since I once ran ...
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Print message AFTER shutdown completes?
I am using a bash script with the shutdown command to halt my system. I know that shutdown can print a message as an argument. Here's my current command:
shutdown -h now "Shutdown complete. You ...
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Ability to halt/reboot server as user
I need to ability to halt an aws EC2 server as user. I found https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-linux-allow-users-to-shutdown-server.html but due to the fact that I need this feature on an aws EC2 ...
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How do I make a cheat-code permanent on Knoppix 8.6.1?
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How do I make the following cheat-code permanent on knoppix 8.6.1 on usb stick,
because filesystem type is iso9660 (read-only) and won't let me edit
/mnt-system/boot/isolinux/isolinux.cfg.
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How can I halt my new PC instead of poweroff when I call 'shutdown -H now'?
I want to have the message system halted after command shutdown -H now, but my new PC after this command power-off the machine.
With my old PC that command worked fine. But my new PC is powered down ...
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suddenly wifi internet disconnection [duplicate]
I have sometimes internet disconnection from my wifi connection to my home wifi modem.
I have one Linux LMDE OS into my Lenovo IdeaPad 310 laptop, so in regular times I have this:
so@notebook:~$ ...
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Debian 9 halt does not really power off in new versions - why?
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I am able to restore halt old behavior if I do:
apt install sysvinit-core
Plus: Old Red Hat based versions are able to power off with halt too.
I am trying to understand why in Debian ...
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