Shutdown not working

[Salvio]

I'm referring to the gnome panel.

Regardless of the definition found in the man page, when a
user selects "shut down" from the gnome panel my guess is
that the computer should power down, i.e. shutdown -h now


Thoughts?

Graham Campbell wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 17:47, Salvio wrote:
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>>Hi all,
>>
>>connecting (via ssh) to a remote machine I have:
>>
>>---
>>login as: root
>>Sent username "root"
>>root at 192.168.0.111's password:
>>Last login: Tue Dec  9 17:32:31 2003 from 192.168.0.110
>>[root at localhost root]# shutdown now
>>
>>Broadcast message from root (pts/1) (Tue Dec  9 17:37:38 2003):
>>
>>The system is going down to maintenance mode NOW!
>>[root at localhost root]#
>>---
>>
>>on the screen of the remote machine I see:
>>
>>---
>>Telling INIT to go to single user mode.
>>INIT: Going sigle user
>>INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
>>INIT: Sending pocesses the KILL signal
>>sh-2.05b#
>>---
>>
>>What should I check?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Salvio
>>
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>>
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>According to the shutdown man page, the default action is to go into
>single user mode (runlevel 1). Use the -r flag to reboot or the -h flag
>to halt the system.
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