Thanks for your response. As far as I know I am not using APM as I have never looked at it. Doing the command "apm" I get "AC on-line, no system battery". Yes the three fingers work. It brings me the little "logout?" screen then to the KDE welcome with the login, shutdown, etc options. A shutdown-reboot instruction brings me to a halt. The last two lines on the screen are: "Master Resources Control: Run level 6 has been reached. Init: No more processes left in this run level" And, a dead keyboard. After power off and power on I end up still in level 6 with a read-only file system. "runlevel /var/ulpm" gives me "5 6" With no way to way to reboot I can only get the file system back by going to maintenance mode using "shutdown now" with no options. At the bash prompt that results, I do this series: sync mount -n -o remount,rw / CTL P init 5 Then I am back to level 5 and the login screen comes up. Everything is working the same but there has not been a reboot and I have not found a way to do one. This mess was created by my trying to make a change in the inittab file. I have restored that file to the original but have not been able to do a reboot since that crash. Jack On Tuesday 13 November 2001 08:13, you wrote:
This may be a problem with your APM or ACPI config. If you are trying to use power management features (especially if you compiled the kernel yourself) try shutting down the power management features (in bios if necessary). Do the 3 fingered salute (ctl+alt+del) and see if it works.
Jack