On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 13:48, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Tom Nielsen wrote:
When I either try to log off KDE or do a complete shutdown or restart, my system always hangs just as it's leaving KDE. I get a black screen with my cursor on it and then everything freezes. I can't control-alt-backspace, my cursor doesn't move, my keyboard doesn't work...nothing. The only way to get out is to hit the reset button. Any thoughts on why this is happening? I'm running 9.1 Pro with KDE 3.2.91. BTW, my second system, which is running the same thing, has no problem.
Thanks!
I would suggest that you go to another terminal by depressing the following keys: Ctrl and Alt. Now whilst you have have them depressed press one of the function keys F1-F6
Login as root and at the prompt issue the 'startx' command.
Once X has started immediately log out as root. This will take you back to the CLI. Now enter 'shutdown -r now' to restart the machine.
I may have missed something but why not just issue the shutdown command as soon as logged in instead of startx. man shutdown might help Nothing missed Roger :) asides from following the same boot up process
roger beever wrote: that is probably followed as a 'default'. Doing it my way could provide more details in the log files. It is just a suggestion to the original poster though. -- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================