reboot hangs

[Colin Law]

On 11 February 2011 09:08, Jacques Beigbeder <Jacques.Beigbeder at ens.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an Ubuntu 10.04 10 km away, it is unusable
> but I don't known how to reboot, with a SSH connection.

sudo shutdown -r now

The -r says to restart

Colin

> I tried:
>        reboot -f
>        kill -9 -1
>        kill -15 -1
>
> df shows NFS mounts (as administrator I know),
> but also a CD and several USB devices.
> I tried some 'umount -f' and 'umount -l', they hang.
>
> Is there anything to do to remotely force a reboot?
> The box is 10km away, it is a small PC without IPMI.
>
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