Mang Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 Hi, Apologies if this is in the wrong section Can anybody offer me any advice or point me in the direction of some reading matter? I am a noobie to Linux and have learnt the basic shell commands. I had this problem with 9.1 as well, I have noticed that it happens more frequently when i have been on the web, I use Mozilla as my web browser. I am currently using the 9.2 download version and I shutdown through the GUI, loggingout first I originally posted this thread on a different forum and they kindly pointed me to this forum, so you could hopefully shead some light on the situation. If you need anymore info just let me know. Thanks in advance, Mang. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 (edited) Welcome! So, you logout to a display manager's gui>choose Shutdown/Halt (or whatever) and it reboots? What else have you tried? Open a terminal>su to root>type; shutdown -h now and hit Enter If that doesn't work...Logout>Ctrl+Alt+F2>login as root>type; service dm stop and press Enter. then Ctrl+Alt+F2>type; shutdown -h now and hit Enter work? [EDIT] Then do the same for your user. Work? Edited February 22, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 My guess: you haven't shut down your computer for real in a while, meaning: really pulled the plug. Some bioses do this sometimes, usually after having been connected to the mains power for some time. Just shut down, if it boots again, go into the bios, or use the arrow keys when you're in the lilo or grub (or whatever) boot menu -- then just switch of the pc with the switch at the back, or pull the power cable. BTW all at your own risk, although I don't think this can harm the machine (they would have piles of broken pc's in California if they died from power failure.... ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mang Posted February 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 Thanks for the replies. bvc, before reading your post i had tried "poweroff" in the terminal to no avail. since then i have tried what both you and aRTee have suggested and still no joy ( it worked initially but after spending some time on the net same problem), can you suggest anything else? thanks Mang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 24, 2004 Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 Are you using apci, apm, or both? Look in mcc>System>DrakXServices (or Services or some type). I cn use eithre/or or both and shutdown. Some systems can with both or will shutdown with just apm or acpi. if your sys is fairly new using just acpi should do the trick. I use acpi only and uninstall apmd. Packages are apmd acpi acpid For acpi the bootloader must tell the kernel to use it acpi=on acpi=off acpi=ht on and off are self explainitory but ht basically means acpi will only be used at boot/shutdown and not for any other power management functions (if I understand that rt). bootloader entry (grub) title SuSE9Pro kernel (hd1,8)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb9 vga=normal splash=quiet desktop hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts acpi=on initrd (hd1,8)/boot/initrd Lilo has an append= line to add it to.... append=acpi=on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mang Posted February 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2004 HI, I just have apmd running from boot, the machine is an old P3 433, i am currently building a new compooter into which i will put this HDD, hopefully solving the problem? thanks for your help so far, Mang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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