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On Friday 13 August 2004 09:24 am, Gil Weber wrote: [...]
Have you tried going to tty1 to shudown?
Had never tried this. New to me.
Press ctrl-alt-F1 and log in as root. After doing that issue the command "shutdown -h now" to completely shutdown or "shutdown -r now" to reboot. See if those work for you and we'll go from there.
I used shutdown -r now and that worked! I have not tried shutdown -h now, but I assume if it rebooted it will also shutdown.
So using a command in the shell does work. But I can't get the same function everytime from the desktop. And the problem seems to be occuring more often. It's increasingly rare that the pooter will shut down reboot in the normal manner.
Hope this additional info gives you some ideas. Thx. Gil =============
Ok, from this new info, we know you can log the system out from the command line. Now since you still have X running, we'll assume that's not part of our problem. To test that, you could go to the "login" screen and see if you can shutdown from there. If that works ok, we'll guess X is not entering in the equation.
From the login screen I was able to reboot. I did not try to shut down from there, but I assume if I can restart that I can also shut down from the login screen.
Now the next thing to try is to see if you can shutdown via the shell from KDE. Log back in to KDE, open a shell, su to root and again issue the command "shutdown -r now" to see what happens.
Yes, I was able to do that from the shell. It restarted the computer and I logged back in as usual. If that works, my
first guess for problem shutdown in KDE would be a setting or problem with KDE. Maybe someone else will jump in and offer an opinion as well. I know there is something in YaST2 that let's you set the shutdown procedure, but don't remember the exact place.
That's in Yast2/system adminstration/login manager/shutdown.
There is also a setting to let "everybody" shut things down, you might check to see if you changed that at some point mistakenly to root only.
Nope. I checked and shutdown is set to "local/everybody."
Report back with your findings. Baby steps to track it down. ;o)
Thanks! Gil