Re: [newbie] Problems shutting-down in M-L 9.0

2002-10-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 29 Oct 2002 4:44 am, Miark wrote: I figured out tonight that if I, using drakxservices, shutdown autofs, then I can halt or reboot without a problem. I expect you'll experience the same thing, Dave. So what is autofs and what happens if I leave it off permanently? Miark autofs

Re: [newbie] Problems shutting-down in M-L 9.0 - FIXED

2002-10-29 Thread Miark
Thanks Derek. I killed autofs and stopped it from running automatically at boot. My shutdown problems have now been eliminated. Great! Miark On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:22:39 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 29 Oct 2002 4:44 am, Miark wrote: I figured out tonight that if

[newbie] Problems shutting-down in M-L 9.0

2002-10-28 Thread DaveA
Hi all. Well, just installed M-L 9.0 and it certainly looks pretty nice. Bit over the top with all the GUI stuff on logon and shutdown, but it certainly gives you heaps more info about what is going on than Windoze ever has... The problem of the minute is, when I go to shutdown the PC (from

RE: [newbie] Problems shutting-down in M-L 9.0

2002-10-28 Thread DaveA
that it's locked-up at this error message, how do I now go about shutting-down cleanly? And yeah, how do I disable NFS? TIA, DaveA. -Original Message- From: ET [mailto:etharp;earthlink.net] Sent: Monday, 28 October 2002 8:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Problems shutting

Re: [newbie] Problems shutting-down in M-L 9.0

2002-10-28 Thread bascule
the automount stuff involves /misc and /net, i don't really understand it myself but have a look in /etc/auto.* and see if there are any clues there bascule On Monday 28 Oct 2002 11:07 am, DaveA wrote: The problem of the minute is, when I go to shutdown the PC (from inside and outside of

Re: [newbie] Problems shutting-down in M-L 9.0

2002-10-28 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 21:01:15 +0930 DaveA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ET, This box resides on a Windoze network (although eventually it would be nice to get rid of that!) with an IPCop box as the firewall, and whilst it would be cool to be able to access the data on the Windoze boxes, it's

Re: [newbie] Problems shutting-down in M-L 9.0

2002-10-28 Thread Miark
I figured out tonight that if I, using drakxservices, shutdown autofs, then I can halt or reboot without a problem. I expect you'll experience the same thing, Dave. So what is autofs and what happens if I leave it off permanently? Miark On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:37:05 +0930 DaveA [EMAIL

[newbie] Problems shutting-down

2002-10-27 Thread DaveA
Hi all. Well, just installed M-L 9.0 and it certainly looks pretty nice. Bit over the top with all the GUI stuff on logon and shutdown, but it certainly gives you heaps more info about what is going on than Windoze ever has... The problem of the minute is, when I go to shutdown from within KDE,

Re: [newbie] Problems shutting down

2001-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 13 February 2001 15:51, you wrote: Every time I try to shutdown the OS, I have a problem. When I am at the login screen, and click Shutdown, I get the menu asking if I want to shutdown, restart, etc...but I cannot choose anything on this menu with my mouse or my keyboard. I

Re: [newbie] Problems shutting down

2001-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 13 February 2001 15:51, you wrote: Every time I try to shutdown the OS, I have a problem. When I am at the login screen, and click Shutdown, I get the menu asking if I want to shutdown, restart, etc...but I cannot choose anything on this menu with my mouse or my keyboard. I

Re: [newbie] Problems shutting down

2001-02-13 Thread Michael Scottaline
Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure why that's happening, but you can get around that by opening up a prompt as root and type shutdown -r now. That will reboot the machine. You can do a shutdown --help for all the other parameters if you'd like. Does that problem happen ALL

Re: [newbie] Problems shutting down

2001-02-13 Thread Michael Scottaline
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every time I try to shutdown the OS, I have a problem. When I am at the login screen, and click Shutdown, I get the menu asking if I want to shutdown, restart, etc...but I cannot choose anything on this menu with my mouse or my keyboard. I cannot choose OK or

Re: [newbie] Problems shutting down

2001-02-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
"H.J.Bathoorn" wrote: Type: shutdown -h now instead of the h you can type a number giving the minutes before definite shutdown - be su root tho!- Luck, Harm Bathoorn Umm, I don't have to su here. It just asks me for my users password then works fine... --