FC6 Shutdown

[Tony Nelson]

At 2:35 PM +0100 3/14/07, antonio montagnani wrote:
>2007/3/13, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com>:
>> At 9:21 AM +0100 3/13/07, antonio montagnani wrote:
>>  ...
>> >Some misunderstanding comes from translation (I am running Fedora in
>>Italian)
>>
>> Yes, but /I/ knew what you meant.  I just don't know the answer.
>>
>> >When I open the window System/Stop I have three options (buttons):
>> >Restart/Cancel/Stop from left to right. It happens when I want to stop
>> >the computer.Sometimes it doens't stop and I have to go trhough
>> >System/Stop/Stop procedure (always graphically)
>> >Problem of acpi=force has been included in one computer to power off
>> >the machine!!!
>>
>> Do you mean that you press the button, it hilites, but then nothing else
>> happens, so you press it again, it hilites, and the system shuts down?  Or
>> do you mean that you press the button, nothing happens, you close the
>> dialog, choose the menu command again, press the button, and the system
>> shuts down?  I ask because if I have the mouse over a button at the wrong
>> time it won't actually activate when pressed until I move the mouse off it
>> and back on, so I'm asking for more precision here.
>
>I press the button (it hilites) , window closes but nothing happens:
>when I repeat procedure everything is fine.

Hmm.  OK, so it really is trying to do something and is failing silently.


>> For that matter, what happens if you issue (as root) "shutdown -h now"?
>> Does that sometime not do anything?  Probably it always works, but it would
>> be nice to know in order to isolate the problem (if it isn't the button
>> itself).
>
>shutdown -h is o.k. I issued from a su terminal as /sbin/shutdown -h
>and it worked

Good, though since the problem only happens "sometimes" then you'd probably
have to try it this way many times to be sure.

Sorry that I can't be more helpful.
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