To find out what triggered this use : more /var/run/reboot-required.pkgs nJoy 😉
Reboot required Ubuntu
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Magic SysRq key
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The “magic SysRq key” provides a way to send commands directly to the kernel through the /proc filesystem. It is enabled via a kernel compile time option, CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ, which seems to be standard on most distributions. First you must activate the magic SysRq option: echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq When you are ready to reboot the…
Rebooting a Centos server ignoring CIFS or other broken / hung mount
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We had a problem on a server df would hang and we knew that a cifs / samba share died and recovered. Trying unmount / with any parameters -l -f failed. Experience and google told us we need to reboot. This is a remote server and we know the shutdown hangs on going down so…