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I just installed Mandrivia today, and I can't shut it down properly! The Shutdown command isn't there, and I can't use the HALT or REBOOT commands on the login screen, ...
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- 05-10-2005 #1Linux User
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I just installed Mandrivia today, and I can't shut it down properly! The Shutdown command isn't there, and I can't use the HALT or REBOOT commands on the login screen, what should I do?
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- 05-10-2005 #2Linux Guru
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Have you tried from a terminal. su, then root pasword.
Then "halt" or "reboot" or "shutdown -r" or "shutdown -h"How to know if you are a geek.
when you respond to "get a life!" with "what's the URL?"
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- 05-10-2005 #3Linux User
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I just tried that last night, it worked, thank you. I'm guessing only ROOT has the privelages to do that and is quite annoying. So I opened up the KDE control panel and peeked at the login screen settings(as the login screen is based on the KDE X login screen) and found that I had to set it up so that ANYONE, instead of NOBODY could shut down the system from it. Anyways thanks for the reply, it saved me from lots of grief. I was used to that being pre-configured for me on other Disto's.
Nothing is worse than ten penguins fighting over which is better, vi or emacs.
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Finally I'm back on LF after a long while.
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