logout only says close session not stop computer

[kristi]

2006 cooker but some sharpie down here will know the answer.

when I first installed it a day ago it sorked fine.

 

in user, no other sessions running, CTRL-ALT-F6.7.8.9 give me nothing except f7 which is the session I'm logging out of.

menu logout.

logs out and gives me that screen where it wants me to log in.

 

Oddly ctrl-alt-del does nothing. in fact all of those do nothing

 

inittab

#
# inittab       This file describes how the INIT process should set up
#               the system in a certain run-level.
#
# Author:       Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org>
#               Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes
#

# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by Mandrakelinux are:
#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#   1 - Single user mode
#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
#   3 - Full multiuser mode
#   4 - unused
#   5 - X11
#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 
id:5:initdefault:

# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6

# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE

# When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes
# of power left.  Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now.
# This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your
# UPS connected and working correctly.  
pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"

# If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.
pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled"


# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin

 

I'm going out for errands (beautiful hot day here in Boston!!!) when I get back I'll look here for answers but I think kde has hosed itself and I think rpm is probably at fault (exceptions when running NCC software install)

This is not a biggie. Probably just time to reinstall and drink a cool one (pink lemonade!!!)

tia

Kristi

[devries]

If you have problems with logging out using a GUI go to terminal 2, 3, 4 (ctrl-alt- f2, f3etc) not to 7,8,9etc. Log in and type: halt (or reboot) The system will now shut down.

[Ixthusdan]

My 10.2 LE also does not give a Power off in kde. I have to go to gdm. (I use that instead of kdm) But, I don't do that anyway. Like Devreis, I type "Poweroff" in a console to shut down, or "reboot" to reboot.

[kristi]

thanks. I thought the word was "halt", but whatever, it wouldn't take anything, I don't think. I re-instaled up to cooker, but KDE is still noticeably fragile, and I couldn't get Klamav to use the Dazuko modules, so I backed off again and am now on 2005 out of the box. I'll put the updates bugfixes etc on this afternoon and try to get the first beta image when it's out in beta.

 

I also found out in my wandering that Debian r6 was out on the 2nd, so I want to see if I can get a DVD of that (it's about 7 CDs - current is about 14 cd's but I imagine that also has the sources. If I can get it, it might be a good chance to learn some more debian type stuff - my 2nd distro was Xandros which is deb so I'm a little partial, but just want to learn more.

Thanks for looking in - I'll try that if I wind up in a fix - (I'm used to ctrl-alt-del when I want to get out caust that pops it right to lev 6 and then shuts down.

Kristi

 

EDIT: woody r6 DVD is being d/l now, but I also heard Sarge (3.1) will be out in a few days. new toys!!! At least I know 2005 works. I really need 2 separate computers