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On a KVM host, after gracefully shutting down the guest KVM, I get:

[root@kvm]# /sbin/shutdown -h now

Broadcast message from [email protected]
        (/dev/pts/1) at 15:23 ...

The system is going down for halt NOW!
**shutdown: Method "EmitEvent" with signature "sasb" on interface "com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6" doesn't exist**

And I cannot reboot the machine. The same happens for -Ph or -r.

Thanks

UPDATE 1: I will place this question on hold until the next time I have to restart this machine.

UPDATE 2: reboot works.

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  • How about poweroff and reboot ?
    – ewwhite
    Jan 6, 2014 at 20:46

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.. did you tried halt? one of the first I'd do is head over to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg- to see how my interfaces are configured, you're saying it's CentOS, yet I'm also seeing ubuntu there, so double check, I think your problem is somewhere there...

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    The Ubuntu reference is because EL6 uses Upstart.
    – ewwhite
    Jan 6, 2014 at 21:19
  • @ewwhite I'm using CentOS on one of my boxes, and I'm not seeing any ubuntu references in there, probably because I'm not using upstart, thanks for pointing this out for me.
    – alexus
    Jan 6, 2014 at 21:23
  • do a find&grep for "com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6". it's in there a few times. CentOS 6.5
    – Gaia
    Jan 6, 2014 at 21:57
  • didn't try halt, poweroff or reboot. it's always been shutdown on this server.
    – Gaia
    Jan 6, 2014 at 21:58
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    @Gaia Please try them.
    – ewwhite
    Jan 7, 2014 at 3:08

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