On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 05:16:47PM -0600, Atlantean Productions wrote:
> I am absolutely clueless here and I need help.
>
> Earlier today,my daughter's cat decided my laptop keyboard was a warm and
> toasty place to lie.
Which to a cat, it probably is.
>
> I removed kitty and backspaced all the text. At the beginning it asked for
> my log in and password.
You can usually do that in one move with ctl+U, though I'd have to test
it with my cat. Just in most cases, ctl+U will bring you back to a
prompt.
I typed them in, thinking I could shut down the
> computer and then restart it. After I logged in, I tried to shut down the
> system but nothing happened (it's quit possible I used the wrong command. I
> was trying 'shut down' and 'quit" )
It's shutdown -h now
quit wouldn't work, assuming you were in a terminal.
>
> ... Please help! I'm on a dead line for a book and I simply don't have time
> for this.. ..... (yes, the cat is fine, and I've learned to always remember
> to lock my screen before I walk away from the computer.)
>
> Yvette
Hrrm, it almost sounds as if scim is enabled and accepting input. Scim
is an Asian language input thingie.
It's difficult to troubleshoot at a distance. Just for fun, when you
type and see this terminal taking the input at the bottom, hit
ctl+space. If it is scim, that should turn it off. (However, that's a
wild guess and a long shot.
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