RH 8 not going down gracefully

[Mark Street]

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oooops, my brain is not engaged yet....

I meant check /etc/rc.d/rc0.d  scripts to make sure the shutdown scripts are 
there...  still working on that first cup of joe...

On Saturday 14 December 2002 08:26, Mark Street wrote:
> Different.....  You are running in runlevel 5.  The normal behavior when
> shutting down in runlevel 5 is for the screen to go black and the machine
> to go down gracefully running the rc5.d scripts.
>
> Can you grab another virtual terminal with a CTRL ALT F2 ?  Login as root
> and shutdown from there.  Try not to hit the power switch if you don't have
> to.
>
> Check out /etc/rc.d/rc5.d and make sure your shutdown script sequence is
> there.
>
> Check out /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
> I usually REMOVE the SYSTEM menu from my systems the run runlevel 5 in
> gdm.conf....  I think RH8 may replace your old one gdm.conf-rpmsave for
> Gnome2, compare the two and see what has changed.  I can send you mine if
> you want to compare.  You can change an option in gdm.conf to have it log
> or debug to syslog for more information.
>
> Let us know.
>
> On Friday 13 December 2002 21:29, Joseph McCarty wrote:
> > With a fresh install of RH 8, from either the KDE or GNOME desktop, I Iog
> > out, and on the login screen I select System-->Shutdown.  My screen goes
> > black, the computer remains on but with no disk activity.  After a
> > minute, I shut down by powering down.  Rebooting, the boot process has to
> > run a file system check on /, and restore the other partitions from their
> > journals.
> >
> > On a different box with a slower processor, less RAM, a different video
> > card, and RH 7.3, I never had this problem.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Joe McCarty
> > jatlee at pacbell.net
> > 707-545-2462
> >
> > ps--I think this is an OS thing, but just in case, the video card is
> > Number Nine Revolution IV (T2R4), its driver is i128, and the monitor is
> > a Viewsonic PF790

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