servicedesk wont shutdown

hi,

as root i run:
sh shutdown -S

server outputs the below and continues to run. is there a suggested way to best stop the server other than reboot?

thank you for your help
S

root@192.168.78.78:~/AdventNet/ME/ServiceDesk/bin# sh shutdown.sh -S

Exception in thread "main" javax.naming.CommunicationException [Root exception i s java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: 71.202.125.221; nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused]
at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:649)
at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:509)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.Shutdown.main(Shutdown.java:188)
Caused by: java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: 71.202.125.221 ; nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(Unknown Source)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.createConnection(Unknown Source)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.newConnection(Unknown Source)
at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.jnp.server.NamingServer_Stub.lookup(Unknown Source)
at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:530)
... 3 more
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIDirectSocketFactory.createSocket(Unknown S ource)
at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIMasterSocketFactory.createSocket(Unknown S ource)
... 9 more