FC 2 won't shutdown or reboot

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 08:40:41PM -0400, Thomas E. Dukes wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> 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.
People are treating your reboot problem but I syspect the reasoon you
are npot geting anything on your panel is that the .gnome* files for
RH 9 are incompatible with FC2. So erasing all the .gnome* files and
directories and then restarting the Window manager with a ctl-bkspace
should fix that, If theire is still trouble with the panel create a
new temporary user and see if the panel is ok for that user.
> 
> 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.
> 

INow you are saying even from a console typing reboot or halt has no
effect? That is really strange? How about ctl-alt-del from the
console?

The problen is really the upgrade from RH 9 to FC2. You would have
gotten better results if you had saves what you wanted to save on a CD
or other location and install FC2 from scratch.
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