Can't shut down

[Jeff Vian]

Victor M.J. Ryden wrote:

> I'd like to see if I can solve this, since installing under VMware was 
> a bear.
>
> Fedora starts up, only errors shown are
> 1) right after "Welcome to Fedora Core" it complains twice about 
> /initrd not being mounted
> 2) doesn't like VMtools
>
> If I login and issue a "shutdown now", it starts ending process's and 
> then:

I use "shutdown -h now"  to power off.

>
> Telling INIT to go to Single User Mode
> INIT: going single user
> INIT: sending processes the TERM Signal
> SH-2.05b#
>
> and I'm back at the prompt, not shut down??
>
>
> ps -aux shows a bunch of  [k*] processes, two INIT [S] processes, 
> vmware-tools, anacron -s, minilogd,  and /bin/sh running.
>
> My only kluge is to do a reboot and then power off when it starts to 
> reboot the "pc"
>
> Any ideas??
>
>