This command shuts down the router gracefully and preserves system state information. A message
appears on the console, confirming that the operating system has halted.
You see the following output (or something similar, depending on the hardware being shut down) after
entering the command:
Shutdown NOW!
System going down IMMEDIATELY
Terminated
Poweroff for hypervisor to respawn
Oct 25 10:35:05 init: event-processing (PID 1114) exited with status=1
Oct 25 10:35:05 init: packet-forwarding-engine (PID 1424) exited with status=8
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Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru_mem' to stop...done
Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...done
Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...done
Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop...
Syncing disks, vnodes remaining...0 0 0 0 done
syncing disks... All buffers synced.
Uptime: 11h0m30s
Normal shutdown (no dump device defined)
unloading fpga driver
unloading fx-scpld
Powering system off using ACPI
kvm: 28646: cpu0 disabled perfctr wrmsr: 0xc1 data 0xabcd
pci-stub 0000:01:00.2: transaction is not cleared; proceeding with reset anyway
pci-stub 0000:01:00.1: transaction is not cleared; proceeding with reset anyway
hub 1-1:1.0: over-current change on port 1
Stopping crond: [ OK ]
Stopping libvirtd daemon: [ OK ]
Shutting down ntpd: [ OK ]
Shutting down system logger: [ OK ]
Shutting down sntpc: [ OK ]
Stopping sshd: [ OK ]
Stopping vehostd: [ OK ]
Stopping watchdog: [ OK ]
Stopping xinetd: [ OK ]
Sending all processes the TERM signal... [ OK ]
Sending all processes the KILL signal... [ OK ]
Saving random seed: [ OK ]
Syncing hardware clock to system time [ OK ]
Turning off swap: [ OK ]
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