>I've noticed that there are times when I initiate a shutdown as root where
>the gpm program (mouse support) seems to hang the shutdown process. If I
>manually kill gpm prior to initiating shutdown, then things work fine. Any
>idea why this is so and how to correct it?
Dunno, but you could explicitly kill gpm, and then perform the shutdown
#! /bin/sh
gpm -k
/sbin/shutdown $*
call this script 'bye-bye' or whatever, and chmod 700 it. Any args you feed
to it will be passed to shutdown.
HTH,
DL
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