I don't know what the solution is, but I too had this problem once.
It got to the exact same point, and just stopped. I haven't
had a problem since.
About the only help I can offer is that I am not using KDE,
so I don't think that is the problem.
Try this, shut off the machine. Restart Linux. Don't
go into X at all. shutdown the system. does the problem still
happen? Let me know. Maybe I can help you track it down...
Bryan Scaringe
>
> My system's is hanging at shutdown at this point: shutting down gpm
> mouse services. That's it. I'm locked at that point after doing
> #shutdown -r now. Have to hit the reset button...argh!
>
> The only thing that I can think of that's changed is that I installed
> KDE. It seems after that that this problem cropped up.
>
> I modified the /etc/profile file per KDE install instructions. Added
> the lines:
> KDEDIR="/opt/kde"
> PATH="$PATH:$KDEDIR/bin"
> export KDEDIR
>
> just before the line beginning with "export PATH PS1 HOSTNAME
> HISTSIZE..."
>
> I didn't put any space inbetween those lines, just added it to the
> file. KDE starts up fine and runs like a champ. Nice WM btw :-).
>
> I'm running Linux RH 5.1 with all errata applied in the proper order.
> Tri-boot to Win98, Win NT 4 (SP3) and Linux.
>
> Any ideas why my system is hanging at this point hon shutting down?
>
> Thank in advance,
>
> James
>
