On 01-Mar-00 Bart�omiej Muryn wrote:
> Yes - me...
> I have DELL Latitude CPiA and I had the same problem in Mandrake 6.1
> This was solved when I reconfigured and recompiled kernel.
> In Mandrake 7.0 all is OK.
This might be an option to try but before going this far I would like
first to know:
1) what is happening
2) why it is happening
I have never had to recompile the standard kernel before after an
install to get anything working!
Alexander
> I have succesfully installed Mandrake 7.0 on a Dell Inspiron 3700 laptop.
> (with Gnome as desktop).
> (Mobile Pentium III, UltraDMA/ATA-33, Ati Rage Mobility-P, Ess Maestro-2E)
>
> Everything seems to be working OK except `shutdown -r now'.
> This happens from both runlevel 3 or runlevel 5.
> The machine seems to do a perfect shutdown but does not startup
> again: the screen remains backlit and the disk whirs but that is it.
>
> Shutdown with reboot worked under Win98 before I removed it!
>
> In `/var/log/messages', after `shutdown -r now' you can indeed see:
> `syslog: klogd shutdown succeeded'
> `exiting on signal 15'
> but no:
> `syslog 1.3-3: restart.' after this to start up again.
>
> I have checked things like `/etc/rc.d/init.d/halt', etc. and as
> far as I can see everything appears to be correct.
>
> Has anybody experienced anything like this? (on a laptop?)
> Could it be a Mandrake problem or perhaps a BIOS/laptop problem?
> (Nothing in the BIOS setup suggests possible problems)
>
> Alexander
