RH 8 not going down gracefully

[Joseph McCarty]

As it turns out, the Number Nine card is the problem.  Switching it with a
contemporary ATI card in my daughter's machine, problem solved.  And she
gets the gourmet device, which works great in windows.

BTW, this problem pops up with any number of video cards, as reflected in
sifting through Google --> Groups.

--Joe


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From: "Mark Street" <jet at sonic.net>
To: <talk at nblug.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: RH 8 not going down gracefully


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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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