[newbie] Annoying Problem in Mandrake 9.1

Dear All, Why my Mandrake 9.1 can't be reboot or shutdown in text mode (non-Xwindow). I typed shutdown -r now or halt but the output is ;2R. I must type shutdown -r now many times to reboot my PC. Why should I do to fix it ?. I don't want to change my Mandrake to Red Hat 9 or Libranet Linux 2.8.

Re: [newbie] Annoying Problem in Mandrake 9.1

Zariyan Zephyr wrote: Why my Mandrake 9.1 can't be reboot or shutdown in text mode (non-Xwindow). I typed shutdown -r now or halt but the output is ;2R. I must type shutdown -r now many times to reboot my PC. Why should I do to fix it ?. I think it defaults to only let root reboot from the