Guest ramped Posted November 12, 2002 Report Share Posted November 12, 2002 I am a complete newby to the Linux world. I have everything working in MDK9 the way I want except for one thing. When I shutdown the computer, it gets to a point where it says "Stopping DM" and just sits there. If i reboot the system, then tell it to shutdown from the login screen, it will shutdown but when it says "Stopping DM" it reports FAILED. Any help would be great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest davebsr Posted November 16, 2002 Report Share Posted November 16, 2002 Well I bet that your Display Manager isn't dyin properly. erm...A little more info would be nice...are you using xdm, kdm, gdm??? Does your computer shut down after DM-shutdown fails, or does it hang there? Behavior? If it was me, I would not boot into X automatically, but to the command line instead. It's just good practice. I can get you started if you want. It means booting to the command line, and writing a little file so that your window manager starts up when you type "startx". This way you don't need a DM. Or you could try to switch DM's...there usually are two or three available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted November 16, 2002 Report Share Posted November 16, 2002 Just use Xtart from console (init 3). It's like a dm for console. urpmi Xtart Choose not to start X at boot in mcc>Boot>Boot Config and reboot. At init 3 (console) after login, type Xtart to get a list of wm's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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