Re: [techtalk] shutdown problems

2000-04-08 Thread jenn
Amy wrote: > I am not at home at the moment, so I can't look in the system log, but > I noticed if I log out in Gnome and select shutdown, it shuts down > properly. If I try and just type shutdown now while not running Gnome, > it stops at a bash prompt. When I type 'exit' at the bash prompt, it

Re: [techtalk] shutdown problems

2000-04-08 Thread Amy
On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Jeff Dike wrote: > > I think the thing to do is figure out what state the machine is in. Does the > bash prompt work? What's running at that point? What runlevel is the machine > in? Any strange messages in the system log? > > Jeff I am

Re: [techtalk] shutdown problems

2000-04-08 Thread Jeff Dike
> When I try to shutdown the machine to reboot into Windows when I need > to, it no longer shuts down. It stops at a bash prompt. I always used > shutdown now and had no problems, but it doesn't seem to work now. > Any suggestions as to how to fix this? I think the thing to do is figure out wh

[techtalk] shutdown problems

2000-04-08 Thread Amy
Everything was working great with my RH 6.1 until my sister somehow crashed my machine while I was at work. I walked her through the rebooting process and everything seemed to go well. When I try to shutdown the machine to reboot into Windows when I need to, it no longer shuts down. It stops at