Guest Vermyndax Posted May 23, 2003 Report Share Posted May 23, 2003 Hey all... I'm a Linux moderate user... not a newbie, but not an expert. Just recently installed mdk9.1. I hated mdkkdm, so I used the control center to change my DM to GDM. Now, when I'm in Gnome, if I do a reboot... it just logs me out and sends me back to GDM. If I CTRL-ALT-F1 to go to tty1, then it will start shutting down. I seem to remember this happening even when mdkkdm was running. Yes, I've run Mandrake Update and retrieved the updates. Anyone else had this problem and fixed it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 23, 2003 Report Share Posted May 23, 2003 what are your security settings? higher settings won't allow regular users to reboot the system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vermyndax Posted May 23, 2003 Report Share Posted May 23, 2003 I'm set to "standard"... It's worth noting, like I said, it seems to just sit around until you hit CTRL-ALT-F1 to go to tty1... then it will begin the shutdown sequence without any further keystrokes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted May 23, 2003 Report Share Posted May 23, 2003 Maybe not a good answer to why the gui is acting up, but I have gotten into the habit of typing "reboot" or "power off" in a console, which I have open all of the time. It always works, without going back to the login screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmack Posted May 24, 2003 Report Share Posted May 24, 2003 Not sure this is applicable to your problem, but I have had a hardware related problem that prevents a reboot. It has been there since ML 8.2 and it still happens in 9.1. Works under Win98SE but every version of ML has not been able to reboot cleanly. :roll: So-- I just shutdown and restart rather than hang the computer. It takes longer, but avoids the hassle that doesn't seem to be overcomeable. Mobo here is Abit KR7A133 Athalon XP 1600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vermyndax Posted May 24, 2003 Report Share Posted May 24, 2003 I haven't had any other rebooting troubles in any other distros or Windows. I did notice that this only happens when using GNOME as the desktop. When logging into a KDE session and then rebooting, it doesn't happen... the system reboots fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted May 24, 2003 Report Share Posted May 24, 2003 Do you have all the latest updates? Also... http://www.mail-archive.com/cooker@linux-m.../msg105702.html Googled on Mandrake GDM reboot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vermyndax Posted May 24, 2003 Report Share Posted May 24, 2003 Yep, that's the exact problem I'm having. Sigh... and they didn't even bother to post a fix or give a workaround. Annoying bug! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 24, 2003 Report Share Posted May 24, 2003 If you hit CTRL-ALT-BKSP, the shutdown takes over (it is in progress) and opens the bootsplash screen as it should have done to start with.sounds like a work around to me....and so doesThis works correctly if MdkKDM is used as the display manager.both appear to be valid workarounds, fixes no, workarounds, yes... addition and the comment: It also works on systems which aren't using the bootsplash.seems to imply that turning off the bootsplash (i believe this can be done through MCC->Boot->Boot Options) fixes it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vermyndax Posted May 24, 2003 Report Share Posted May 24, 2003 Guess I'll live with it until they issue a fix (if ever). Of course, I should probably be happy that I'm running Mandrake at all. I reported the PDC20276 bug back in RC2 and they never fixed it. Some guy found the one line fix in the kernel and issed some floppies to fix it. Bless him! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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