Christopher Martin wrote:
Anywhere I should be looking to find what's causing the lock? I haven't used a Linux with X in about 7 years now so I am pretty much a newb in that respect, to the point I don't even know how to get a text shell instead of X.
Boot standalone (give the "s" option at the end of the Linux command line in Grub) by pressing "e" for edit option, "e" for edit line, End Space s, "b" for boot). Update to most recent packages (big) service network start yum update Now try it, "shutdown -r -f now" If it still locks solid then you want to know what bastard process it was. With luck its thrown its hands up with a message. There are a couple of ways you can get to that -- serial console is probably still the simplest at this point in time. With no luck you'll need to run process auditing to the serial console or something else utterly obscene. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
