FC 2 won't shutdown or reboot

[Thomas E. Dukes]

On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 20:51, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Thomas E. Dukes wrote:
> > This is another of several problems I've been working on since upgrading
> > from RH 9.  Hopefully, all these will get worked out.  I must have had a
> > bad install or something.
> > 
> > I am using gnome as the desktop and when it installed, I didn't get
> > anything on the panel excpet the RedHat 'Start" button.  I don't know if
> > its related to the reboot/shutdown problem or not.
> > 
> > But when I need to reboot or shutdown, it won't.  I have to kill the
> > power.  Anyone sen this before?  I searched the archives but didn't find
> > anything relating to this type of reboot problem.
> 
> Even if you run reboot or shutdown (in a terminal)? As root? On a
> console (Ctrl+Alt+F1)?
> 
> Do any of the combinations produce any error messages?
Well, just tried a reboot from a console and it hangs there too.  
I just get the system message that the system is going down for a 
reboot and it just stops.  I gave it about 5 minutes to do something
but it never did.  I have waited as long as 20 minutes from gnome.
Guess that rules out a problem with gnome.

I could try re-installing some packages but I'm not sure which ones
are needed.

Any ideas?

Thanks!!