system won't reboot

[Edward Dekkers]

Dana Holland wrote:
> I'm having another issue with the same system.  When we issue a 
> "shutdown -Fr now", the system won't reboot on it's own - we have to 
> physically turn off the server and turn it back on.  On the screen it 
> hangs at the line "Restarting the system".  I've tried going through the 
> various logs to find a clue, but the only thing unusual I'm seeing is 
> this, which is found in boot.log.
> 
> Jan 12 09:05:37 astp ^A: ø'^E^H^P¶]·^P
> Jan 12 09:05:37 astp ^A:
> Jan 12 09:05:37 astp ^A: ^D
> Jan 12 09:05:37 astp ^A: facility local7
> Jan 12 09:05:37 astp ^A: ^B
> Jan 12 09:05:37 astp ^A:
> Jan 12 09:05:37 astp ^A:
> Jan 12 09:05:37 astp ^A: ^E
> Jan 12 09:05:37 astp ^A: ^B
> Jan 12 09:05:37 astp ^A:
> Jan 12 09:05:37 astp ^A: ^G
> Jan 12 09:05:37 astp ^A: `å^G^H(¶]· roo^Y
> 
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction to find our problem?
> 
> 

If everything else is fine, then this may be a power issue. Have a look 
at tweaking ACPI related parameters. There may even be some boot options 
which en(dis)able certain things to make this work.

Often a new BIOS can fix these issues also.

Regards,
Ed.