Shutdown error on CentOS 6.5

Question

On a KVM host, after gracefully shutting down the guest KVM, I get:

[root@kvm]# /sbin/shutdown -h now

Broadcast message from vmadmin@kvm.mattermedia.com
        (/dev/pts/1) at 15:23 ...

The system is going down for halt NOW!
**shutdown: Method "EmitEvent" with signature "sasb" on interface "com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6" doesn't exist**

And I cannot reboot the machine. The same happens for -Ph or -r.

Thanks

UPDATE 1: I will place this question on hold until the next time I have to restart this machine.

UPDATE 2: reboot works.

How about `poweroff` and `reboot` ? – ewwhite Jan 06 '14 at 20:46 — ewwhite, Jan 06 '14 at 20:46

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 06 '14 at 20:55

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.. did you tried halt? one of the first I'd do is head over to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg- to see how my interfaces are configured, you're saying it's CentOS, yet I'm also seeing ubuntu there, so double check, I think your problem is somewhere there...

answered Jan 06 '14 at 20:55

alexus

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The Ubuntu reference is because EL6 uses [Upstart](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstart). – ewwhite Jan 06 '14 at 21:19
@ewwhite I'm using CentOS on one of my boxes, and I'm not seeing any ubuntu references in there, probably because I'm not using upstart, thanks for pointing this out for me. – alexus Jan 06 '14 at 21:23
do a find&grep for "com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6". it's in there a few times. CentOS 6.5 – Gaia Jan 06 '14 at 21:57
didn't try halt, poweroff or reboot. it's always been `shutdown` on this server. – Gaia Jan 06 '14 at 21:58
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@Gaia Please try them. – ewwhite Jan 07 '14 at 03:08

Shutdown error on CentOS 6.5

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