Well, here's the deal. If I start an X session as a user, then quit the
X session, logout, login as root, then issue a shutdown -r now, it hangs
at the "shutting down gpm mouse services:" everytime.
This is not related to KDE as I used some of the other WM's to determine
this. It's an X thing...I think. gpm doens't work well with my mouse
anyways (M$ Intellimouse). If you move the thing at all it throws all
sorts of weird stuff out to the command line, so I just leave it alone.
Still searching as to why this would happen. Now I just issue a "kill
-9 <PID>, then issue the shutdown and all is well.
James
Bryan Scaringe wrote:
>
> 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
> >
