yellowdog-general digest, Vol 1 #447 - 13 msgs

[Cynthia Croy]

jesse wrote:

>
>Well, I got it to work (in that it no longer tells me shutdown is invalid).
>I used su - root to switch to root, and then /sbin/shutdown -h now.  I'm not
>sure which of those changes made it work, but thanks!! :-)
>
I think that both are necessary. I am unable to shutdown as a normal 
user, unless it is through Gnome's logout window. I think there is some 
way to set it up so that the shutdown command looks like it's coming 
from root. I don't know what it is though since it was already set up 
that way. I've run into the invalid problem with other commands in the 
/sbin directory. So, if you run into the problem again with other 
commands, try adding the /sbin. I also tried "/sbin/shutdown now -h" 
after reading some of your other responses. It works too.

>
>
>It still does not shut off the power, though.  Hmmmmm.
>
>I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that it seemed to not know
>what an iMac monitor was when I set it up (so I had to use 'failsafe' in
>xconfigurator instead of choosing imac monitor blah blah blah).  does that
>sound plausible?  Maybe I'm just shutting off the monitor when I hit the
>power button.  
>
I am not familiar with the iMac. Is there some indicator on it that 
shows that the computer has shut down? With mine, shutdown only kills 
the computer. The green indicator light on the front goes off along with 
a clicking sort of noise. The indicator light on the monitor goes from 
green to yellow. Everything else - monitor, printer etc. - I have to 
shut off manually -  which I usually do with the on/off switch on the 
surge protector. I have to do this despite the fact that it recognized 
my monitor without any problems.

I just looked back at your original message to see what the monitor 
problem was. I haven't had a respawning too fast message with my YDL 
install. I did have it with the LinuxPPC install. I got around it my 
setting it to start up in runlevel 3 and starting X windows using startx 
at the command line. I have YDL set up the same way. LinuxPPC did a 
graphical login by default, so I had to edit the /etc/inittab file to 
get runlevel 3. Since YDL gave me the option to do a text startup, I 
didn't give YDL the opportunity to give me a respawning too fast 
message. Thus, I don't know if it does it or not. You might be able to 
get around the respawning too fast message by starting up in runlevel 
three. You can then adjust the monitor settings after you're logged in. 
It also took me a couple weeks to discover I could greatly improve the 
resolution by turning on the accelerated video. I guess it doesn't 
always pay to do things the way the installer suggests is safest.

>
>It doesn't tell me it was unmounted uncleanly when I boot up...
>
That's a very positive sign. Mine forces a disk check when it has gone 
through 30 startups without a disk check. You may want to watch this if 
you see it. I don't recall seeing anything that needed fixing when it 
went through one of these checks. However, when the check was forced due 
to unclean shutdowns, there were usually several things it corrected. 
None of them seemed very serious though.

I'm glad I was able to help!

>
>
>--jesse
>
>
>on 10/4/02 10:45 AM, yellowdog-general-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>at yellowdog-general-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:
>
>>Two ideas:
>>
>>Have you tried "/sbin/shutdown -h now"?
>>
>>For the a and b, what happens if you shut off the power and start up
>>again? If you don't get a message about unmounting uncleanly with a disk
>>check forced, I would think it shut down properly. Just for a bit more
>>information, the last thing mine says before the screen goes blank is
>>"stopping all md devices".
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>>
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