I've just upgraded to Mandrake 10.1 (downloaded via FTP) and while everything seemed to go OK on the installation, I notice something strange when shutting down. If I use logout | turn off computer, then the PC powers down within 5 seconds, and the next time I boot up, I get messages that the system appears to have been shiut down uncleanly, and I need to check the drives. If I open a terminal window and run a shutdown -h as superuser, then everything happens as I was used to under 9.2, i.e. the whole process takes about 30-45 seconds, and going this route, I don't get any complaints on next boot up.
Going via the menus on 9.2 used to work as expected. Did something break at 10.0 or 10.1? I'm really just curious, now I know the problem shutting down through a terminal session is an acceptable workround, although it would be useful to fix the problem just in case my wife has to close the system down when I'm running Linux. The hardware, should you think it makes a difference, is a Gateway PIII/450 with 256MB of memory, multiple booting 98, XP and Mandrake via GRUB. All three OSes are on separate drives, the disk with 98 on it is the boot drive, Mandrake is on the third hard drive. Not entirely sure what other information might be relevant, so ask away.... And yes, the problem is reproducible, always the same results for each method of shutting down. BTW, don't overestimate my knowledge of Linux. I know just about enough to navigate round the file system and to run up Kylix amd Kontact. That's why I'm posting to this list. Thanks, Brian.
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