Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown/Restart Issue

[C. Beamer]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Philip Webb wrote: >On Friday 04 November 2005 20:49, C. Beamer wrote: > >>Recently, when trying to restart or shutdown my computer >>using the K menu "Log Out" selection, which gives the options >>to "End Current Session", "Restart the Computer", "Turn of the Computer". >>If I select to restart or turn off, my monitor shuts down, >>but the computer itself neither restarts or shuts off. > > >For "shut off", the problem could result from a recent kernel update, >if you didn't activate the config line to allow power management. >I'm not sure if that would affect "restart" as well. >That's just 1 suggestion: HTH. > Not the case in this situation.  True, when I did an emerge recently, it downloaded new kernel sources, but I haven't installed them yet. (This is because I am working on something that has a deadline and I've never updated the kernel in Gentoo before.  Despite the fact that the Gentoo documentation is excellent, I don't want to risk making a "boo-boo" and then being at a point where I might have to spend days correcting my mistake.) Regards, Colleen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDbH937FsR4jhcRJoRAk/1AKC4nqAfcYWdFnwOtPe2owM3SkkGxQCg1yzN rt2jAuqqvbYrUFGdn5dC9Qc= =gI0v -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----