A reinstall in the case probibly would not be a bad idea. Though its never absolutely necessary. Given enough time, you can always track down what is going on and fix it with unix without re-installing and generally without rebooting.
Your file system is not getting unmounted cleanly when your system attempts to shut down. Unix systems have different "run levels".. Here for example are the run levels for linux: # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user mode # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking) # 3 - Full multiuser mode # 4 - unused # 5 - X11 # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this) Generally when you want to shut down you use the "shutdown" command which simply changes the "runlevel" to either 0 or 6. After initiating a runlevel change the "init" program runs through all the scripts in either /etc/rc.d/rc0.d or /etc/rc.d/rc6.d depending if you are halting or rebooting the system. The last script in each of those directories is responsible for cleanly unmounting the file system.. it points to /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt. That command is not getting run because something is handing the system up. Have you tried the "shutdown -h now" command from command line? -matt On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Tony Vance wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > I am on the verge of reformating my hard drive and installing Redhat all over again. > I used PartitionMagic at the InstallFest to resize my partitions, and no I'm having > a bunch of problems. > > This is the problem: Redhat will not shutdown. If I use the poweroff command or > shutdown via gnome-panel, Redhat will stop processes like so: > > > --------------------- > > > stoping key table: [ OK ] > stoping cups: [ OK ] > > ... > > INIT: No more processes left in this run table. > > > -------------------- > > After which, the system hangs. I have no choice but to power off my laptop and the > power back on. When I power on, the system notes that the computer powered off > uncleanly, forces a file system check, fails, then drops me down to root. Then I > have to use fsck to resolve my file system errors, afterwhich I can start up > correctly again. ***But I still can't shutdown!*** You can see that I am stuck in > a kind of vicious cycle. > > Any ideas of what's going on? > > As an aside, when I do start up I notice that a lot of files don't work or are > missing. Eclipse is can't find necessary files needed to start up. My orinoco > (wireless card) driver is gone, as well as all of my network printer settings. > > Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Do I have to reinstall Redhat? > > Best, > > > Tony > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Tony Vance > Sent: Tue 9/16/2003 5:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: > Subject: [newbies] fsck help, hard drive is spiraling out of control! > Hi everyone, > > I shutdown my computer uncleanly because it wasn't responding, and now Redhat forces > a file check and finds a ton of duplicate blocks, and now my laptop won't boot into > Gnome. I just get the option to logon as root. > > This same problem happened during last weeks Linux InstallFest. Someone named > Andrew ran a fsck command and fixed the duplicate block problem. How do I use the > fsck command? Like this? > > $ fsck /dev/hda > > Thanks for the help! > > Best, > > Tony > > > > > > _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
