Can't reboot from ssh command line

[Daniel Gilbert]

On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 04:23 +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote:

> The problem is that I access the machine via ssh, and for some reason
> it will not reboot via the command line from another machine. That is,
> if I enter:
> shutdown -r now
> from the remote machine, it gives the message that the server is going
> down.... I am disconnected ... but then it doesn't come up. (I have
> checked and it DOES continue to run - I wonder if something is
> hanging?) If I do:
> shutdown -h now
> it shuts down OK. 
> 
> Also (strangely enough), if the machine is connected to a monitor (and
> I am logged into gdm) and I enter "shutdown -r now" from the local
> terminal it WILL restart without any problems.

When I was first setting up a headless machine, i found that the BIOS
would halt while POSTing because it didn't detect a keyboard.. I had to
set an option in the BIOS to never halt because of a keyboard error (i
can not recall the exact terminology)

Hope this helps..

Daniel Gilbert