RHEL 4 ES: Stops on restart

[Sam Folk-Williams]

On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 19:32 -0700, Rian wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Restarting my system <http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/#> (Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux 4 ES [Nahant]) doesn't proceed as expected. I mean it goes
> through the process of shutting down services (everything's fine coz it says
> it's OK), the text *Restarting system* then is displayed like forever so i
> have to push a button for it to restart, is this normal? what causes this?
What update are you running? This was a bug that effected certain
hardware, should be resolved in U3 or U4, iirc.