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 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 reboots Linux. If I startx into Gnome and THEN log off and hit reboot, it then shuts down to where it runs LILO and I can boot into Windows. I *use* Linux pretty efficiently for my job, but I haven't had this box at home very long, and I haven't had a lot of time to mess around with the real meat of the OS, so I am a newbie at figuring out problems. Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
