> Please, be more specific about the place where this happens. Do you > click shutdown from Gnome or KDE? Do you run shutdown -h now from from > console and so on.
The last time this happened was after an unsuccessful attempt to switch the console from X to a text console with the CTL-ALT-F1 sequence. I ended up with a blank screen and couldn't get back to X. I logged in via ssh from another system and ran 'telinit 3' to try to shutdown the X server. This had no effect - 'who -r' continued to report runlevel 5. I then ran 'halt' as root to attempt a reboot, and this also had no effect. The system carried on as though nothing had happened, except with no console. Repeated attempts to halt or 'kill -9' the X server had no effect, so I pressed the button, which had the desired effect. Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digbyt.com -- [email protected] mailing list
