[techtalk] shutdown problems

[Amy]

On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Jeff Dike wrote:

> 
> I think the thing to do is figure out what state the machine is in.  Does the 
> bash prompt work?  What's running at that point?  What runlevel is the machine 
> in?  Any strange messages in the system log?
> 
> 				Jeff


I am not at home at the moment, so I can't look in the system log, but 
I noticed if I log out in Gnome and select shutdown, it shuts down
properly. If I try and just type shutdown now while not running Gnome, 
it stops at a bash prompt. When I type 'exit' at the bash prompt, it
reboots Linux. If I startx into Gnome and THEN log off and hit reboot,
it then shuts down to where it runs LILO and I can boot into Windows. 
I *use* Linux pretty efficiently for my job, but I haven't had this box
at home very long, and I haven't had a lot of time to mess around with
the real meat of the OS, so I am a newbie at figuring out problems. 


Amy
amy at bpsinet.com