lrsach01 Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 I just installed Mandriva 2006 powerpack (that torrent took FOREVER). Install went great...no problems. System started up....no problems. Programs up and running..all going great. Then I shut down my box. First, I logged out of KDE to get the menu. From the menu, I choose to shut down the computer (not restart). The screen goes blank and then fills with strange white characters. Any ideas? What other information can I provide? This is a pentium 4 with 1 gig ram and an NVidia graphics card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 I have shut down issues with 2006 as well. When I try to logout, reboot or shutdown, the system hangs at a blue screen. Glad to see I'm not the only one. I haven't figured out why, but the workaround is to hit Ctrl-Alt-F1. That will take you to a terminal, command line login. Login with your username and password and then run: $ halt or $ reboot Alternatively, don't even try to shutdown with the kde menu entry; just open a console and run the above commands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 Any chance that you have (both of you) NTFS partitions present? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lrsach01 Posted October 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 Any chance that you have (both of you) NTFS partitions present? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yup....I have to keep WinXP on this box since its a work computer. Joy... Is there away to fix this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 (edited) No NTFS here but I got it fixed somehow. I installed another kernel on it for win4lin and was trying to get the nvidia driver working on it. Nvidia wouldn't compile properly with the new kernel because the kernel was compiled with gcc-3.3 and mdv2006 has only gcc-4.0.1. Actually, the module compiled but refused to load complaining of the version mismatch. I rebooted into my old kernel and no more shutdown problems at all. The above leads me to believe it's a problem with mandriva's nvida installation which was corrected by my failed attempt to install the nvidia driver on another kernel. You might try dowloading the most recent nvidia driver and reinstalling. Edit: OK. I spoke too soon. Had a little more time to look at things and it seems that Opengl(i.e. 3d acceleration) is no longer working; I'm sure it was working before. The nvidia screen comes up and the driver loads but I just get error messages when I try to run glxgears. I also have the suspicion that if I get 3d back, my shutdown problems will return. All this definitely points to a problem with the nvidia driver, xorg and manadriva's implementation of the same. Will try to experiment a little more this weekend. Edited October 14, 2005 by pmpatrick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lrsach01 Posted October 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 bump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted October 17, 2005 Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 I got it fixed. The problem appears to be with the dkms package. dkms is suppose to automatically compile and install nonstandard kernel modules like the nvidia driver. I uninstalled dkms and redid a manual install of the nvidia driver and all was well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lrsach01 Posted October 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 any good tips on the best way to do this...I'm not the most proficient with the command line...just NO FEAR... (good back ups help) :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 17, 2005 Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 any good tips on the best way to do this...I'm not the most proficient with the command line...just NO FEAR... (good back ups help) :) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> One solution is adding "noauto" at your NTFS partition fstab entries, and mounting/unmounting them manually. Unmounting may actually fail, or create a kernel oops! Another solution is using an unofficial "inotify" patch which worked for the 2.6.12.X series kernels, but for some reason never found its way to the kernel code. And a third solution, is compiling a 2.6.13.X kernel, which does not have this issue. However, it does have a few other issues! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lrsach01 Posted October 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 so its screwed up all around? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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