Re: Shutdown not working

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Salvio wrote:
> 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?

I agree.  It's weird, but my Fedora box's shutdown stuff for Gnome
is commented out:

(partial display of /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf follows)

# Reboot, Halt and suspend commands, you can add different commands
# separated by a semicolon and gdm will use the first one it can find
#RebootCommand=/usr/bin/reboot;/sbin/reboot;/sbin/shutdown -r 
now;/usr/sbin/shutdown -r now
#HaltCommand=/usr/bin/poweroff;/sbin/poweroff;/sbin/shutdown -h 
now;/usr/sbin/shutdown -h now

As the comment says, RebootCommand and HaltCommand will use the first
command in the list it can find.  I suppose they could be uncommented
and X restarted to see what happens.  If uncommented, those are what RH9
uses.

As I said...weird!


> Graham Campbell wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 17:47, Salvio wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > connecting (via ssh) to a remote machine I have:
> > >
> > > ---
> > > login as: root
> > > Sent username "root"
> > > root 192 168 0 111's password:
> > > Last login: Tue Dec  9 17:32:31 2003 from 192.168.0.110
> > > [root 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 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
> > >
> > >   
> >
> >
> > 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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