todays rawhide - feedback

[Antonio Olivares]

--- Rodd Clarkson <rodd at clarkson.id.au> wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 08:33 -0500, Jim Cornette
> wrote:
> > Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > Jim Cornette wrote:
> > > 
> > >> dragoran wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I installed todays rawhide tree and found this
> issues: 1) why is
> > >>> there no shutdown/reboot in the gnome menus ?
> this is a desktop
> > >>> system and I do not want to suspend it.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> It is an assumption upstream that reflects if
> your computer is capable 
> > >> of suspending, you do not need a shutdown
> choices. A lot of comments 
> > >> previously in gnome-power-manager thread.
> > > 
> > > Incorrect. It is a Fedora specific change.
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks! I thought that upstream GNOME decided on
> this approach. Either 
> > way, limiting the ability to reboot/shutdown is
> not practical for many 
> > reasons.
> 
> Yeah, for example on a system that doesn't suspend
> properly, but all
> you're offered is the opportunity to suspend.
> 
> Once FC5t3 is out I'm going to do some serious
> looking into why my very
> recent Dell Inspiron 9300 doesn't suspend (or
> hibernate), but even so, I
> still need some way of shutting down the system, and
> getting it to start
> again (without having to reboot using the on/off key
> after suspending) 

Become super user 
$ su -
psswd: ******
# shutdown -h now
and/or
# poweroff

should work as usual(from command line/terminal) in
case the options are removed from KDE/GNOME.

Best Regards,

Antonio

> 
> I guess what I'm saying is maybe we need to leave
> shutdown and restart
> in place until such time as suspend is actually
> working as expected.
> 
> 
> Rodd
> -- 
> "It's a fine line between denial and faith.
>  It's much better on my side"
> 
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