rebooting is the process of bringing down a system in a state where it will complete reinitialise, without removing power from the system. Use this tag for question related to problems with being able to reboot a system. For problems booting into a particular installed OS, use the appropriate bootmanager tag (e.g. [grub])
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Command to check if the machine was rebooted
Is there a command to check if the machine has been rebooted?
I have tried last reboot | head -3 and who -r, but I noticed that both give the same result even when the machine is shut down.
user573591
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Temporarily disabling molly-guard
I use molly-guard on all my machines, but sometimes I want to ssh into a machine and execute a script which as a final step should reboot that machine, but then there is the issue that molly-guard kicks in and prompts me for the hostname.
I'm…
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Reboot takes too long
I have a Toshiba S55-B5280 which originally came installed with Windows 10 and after a while I decided to go with linux and try to install it. My choice was Manjaro Linux and so far it has work well however I noted that when I reboot (which is very…
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How does auto reboot happen?
For no apparent reason, my machine is rebooting.
last reboot brings lines like this:
reboot system boot 3.13.0-24-generi Tue Dec 9 18:57 - 19:09 (00:11)
reboot system boot 3.13.0-24-generi Tue Dec 9 12:59 - 19:09 (06:09)
reboot …
Aquarius Power
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At what frequency is /var/log/wtmp updated?
What daemon is in charge of updating this file and at what frequency does it run ?
When I type in last reboot I see :
reboot system boot 3.5.0-45-generic Wed Jan 15 16:24 - 09:49 (14+17:24)
reboot system boot 3.5.0-45-generic Wed Jan 15…
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Stopping an infinite reboot loop from /etc/rc.local
Long story short, an unfortunate series of development mistakes on my part has led /etc/rc.local to quickly execute reboot (on a Pi in my case). The machine is now stuck in an infinite reboot loop.
Can I stop it? It reboots before the login prompt…
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