On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 02:10:29 +0100
"jon kersten" <jonk_at_tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I just installed Red Hat 5.2. Logged on to root. typed xdm, got the
> log in screen. Logged in as root again. I now can not seem to shut
> down the computer. ctrlaltdel doesn't work. Shutdown -h now in the
> term window doesn't seem to work, it just goes back to the xwindow log
> in screen. Is it safe to power down at this point? I have FVWM2
> window manager. Thanks in advance, I have searched all 1020 pages of
> the SAMS book Red Hat Linux Unleashed and 861 pages of QUE's Using
> Unix. Jon Kersten
> jonk_at_tampabaay.rr.com
Sometimes shutdown crashes (I don't know why) and leaves a
'hard-to-kill' process in memory. While this process is running, you
can't re-execute shutdown. kill -anything doesn't affect the process,
but eventually it dies, allowing you to successfully re-execute
shutdown.
If there is no shutdown process running, try logging in as root from the
console(ie not in X or fvwm) and execute shutdown from there.
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Received on Mon Aug 11 2003 - 03:10:09 BST