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poweroff command not working



Hi,

Poweroff linux command giving the error as follows:

/ # poweroff
WARNING: could not determine runlevel - doing soft poweroff
  (it's better to use shutdown instead of poweroff from the command line)
shutdown: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl
init: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl
I tried a lot in internet.But not understandable.
Please help me to fix it.Do we need to do anything from kernel side?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
RajeeSankar