On Sun, 2002-09-15 at 02:32, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Saturday 14 September 2002 03:31 am, Brian Parish wrote: > > I have installed lots of Mandrake machines, but haven't seen this > > before. At the end of the shutdown, I get some traceback info and a bad > > EIP value reported, then a segfault. No big deal as it's at the point > > the machine is supposed to power off anyway, but it looks untidy and of > > course the machine fails to power down. Any ideas out there? > > > > TIA > > Brian > > Brian: > I had this error on an old system, and fixed it with the help of an article > "General Protection Fault after shutdown" at mandrakeuser: > http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/troubles/tquick1.html#GPF > Although the heading says that it's for 7.1, it also worked on later > versions, too. > -- cmg > Carroll,
Delayed this reply until it was proved to work - and it did. My sister can now shut down her 8.2 system without nasty looking segfault messages. Thanks from us both. Brian
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