Re: [newbie] M8.1 Shutdown fails

2003-08-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday August 15 2003 12:04 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Sorry about the delay, too many things on the go at once. > > No, completely hung , not even, > > ctrl+alt+f3] does anything, > > so it's a complete crash, swithch the power off at source. > > It then , of course, has to do a complete f

Re: [newbie] M8.1 Shutdown fails

2003-08-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Sorry about the delay, too many things on the go at once. No, completely hung , not even, ctrl+alt+f3] does anything, so it's a complete crash, swithch the power off at source. It then , of course, has to do a complete fsck as part of the bootup. So what's with stopping kheader ? what does th

Re: [newbie] M8.1 Shutdown fails

2003-08-15 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 09:38, John Richard Smith wrote: > My wife's M8.1 gets to , > > Stopping Kheader, > > and Hangs, > > no cursor, no keyboard, nothing. > > Have to crash the OS and restart. do the numlock lites work on the keyboard? what happens with [ctrl+alt+ f3]? just how are you 'crashi