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Debian 7 openvz/sysvinit issue after dist-upgrade
mikecupcake
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I just ran into this error and found I was unable to reboot/shutdown/halt:
$ reboot shutdown: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl init: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl $
some info if anyone else runs into the same, sounds like it only occurs after a dist-upgrade
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/07/msg01277.html
and https://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2647
I foolishly tried a reboot -f and now neither SSH nor java console will connect, a stop->start via web control panel hasn't helped. Didn't have anything important on there so am free to start from scratch, but curious if this is something my provider could fix easily?
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Yeah, that's a known problem, at least with some of the Debian 7 OpenVZ templates.
I noticed that while doing the dist-upgrade so I quickly reverted to upstart and then ran:
echo upstart hold | dpkg --set-selectionsSince you rebooted... contact your provider. Maybe they are helpful about that if you explain them this is a known bug and all that.
Thanks nyr, I'll give that a try.