July 5, 2002 10:46 am, Stephen Britton wrote:
> Good afternoon folks,
>
> I've been running Mandrake on an old PIII 500 desktop for
> the past two weeks and everything seems to be working fine,
> except for when I go to shutdown (Halt). When I shutdown the
> box and Mandrake goes through it's process, a command
> "KillAll" pops up and then I get a "failed" message. It doesn't
> seem to hurt anything and I have been ignoring it, but I would
> like to get this machine running perfectly.
>
> Could someone tell me what KillAll does and how I can
> stop the error messages that I see when the machine
> shuts down.
>
> Thank you!
>
> - Steve
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It does just what it says Steve; kills the processes that are running so the
machine can reboot or shut down.
Post the error here, since something is hanging ("failed") and it shouldn't
be. Somebody here can help you figure it out.
>From experience with running Mandrake on the same processor for more than two
years in various releases, I can tell you there is no perfect. But there is
damned good and that's what this list is for. To help you get there. :)
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