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Title: shutdown: wall reports an error

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shutdown: wall reports an error

Applies to

SuSE Linux: Version 5.2, 6.0

Symptom:

During the shutdown of the system (e.g. with the command shutdown -h now) the following error message appears :
wall: /dev/ttyXXX: I/O  error

Cause:

wall writes to all ttys (terminals), that are listed in the file utmp. However old versions of xterm don't remove their entries from this file. As a consequence, during shutdown, wall tries to write to a tty, that is no longer in use, resulting in the above message.

Also every terminal, that wasn't erased from utmp by some other program, will cause the same error message.

Solution:

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Keywords: WALL, SHUTDOWN, REBOOT, BOOT, TTY, I/0 ERROR, XTERM

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