[techtalk] shutdown problems

[Jeff Dike]

> When I try to shutdown  the machine to reboot into Windows when I need
> to, it no longer shuts down. It stops at a bash prompt. I always used
> shutdown now and had no  problems, but it doesn't seem to work now.
> Any suggestions as to how to fix this? 

I think the thing to do is figure out what state the machine is in.  Does the 
bash prompt work?  What's running at that point?  What runlevel is the machine 
in?  Any strange messages in the system log?

				Jeff