reboot hangs - what logs to check?

[Thilo Six]

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Craig Hagerman schrieb am 19.03.2006 05:55:
> I don't often shutdown or restart my ubuntu machine but I have noticed
> that it sometimes hangs with a shutdown or reboot. I run this machine
> headless, logging in via ssh or VNC so I can't tell what is going on
> after I enter "shutdown -r (or h) now". What logs can I look in to
> tell what is going on at shutdown or start up to try to solve this
> problem?

Try:
$ dmesg

It will tell what happend during the _last_ boot prozess.
When booting up not function properly, are you able to access command line?

bye Thilo
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i am on Ubuntu 2.6 KDE
- - some friend of mine
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