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Hi everyone,
Lately, I have been having trouble shutting down my computer. When I go to shutdown, I get the following message on the screen at it just hangs there:
Does anyone know what this means. Right now, I have to restart and boot into Windows just so I can shutdown my computer.Code:The system will be halted immediately
Master resource control: runlevel 0 has been reached
Skipped services in runlevel 0: nfs
Bryan
I did a little Googling and most of the instances where SuSE hangs at shutdown are for laptops. They all say to try booting with acpi=off as a parameter.
Thanks techieMoe,
I will give that a try and let you know how it goes. BTW, is there anyway to have acpi disabled by default if I don't want to have to pass that parameter each time?
Bryan
Good question. I believe in the Bootloader section of YaST you can add parameters to your boot options.Quote:
Originally Posted by bryansmith
Okay, I think I was able to add acpi=off to the boot. I added it to a line after pushing e at the menu and then e again. I added acpi=off to that line. I am not sure if that was where that was supposed to go but it didn't work. Did I put it in the right place?
I also looked at Yast and was unable to find anything that is obvious about changing acpi for boot. Any ideas? (Sorry, I am still a newbie).
Bryan
Either go to YAST > System > Bootloader > Edit Configuration Files which will put you in the menu.lst file and you can enter acpi=offQuote:
Originally Posted by bryansmith
Or cd to /boot/grub/menu.lst to enter it.
Okay, acpi was already off. Could this be the reason? Should I turn it on?
Bryan
I doubt it but no harm in trying!Quote:
Originally Posted by bryansmith
This is a tough one. Did this just start recently or long term problem? Is something running in the background that you might have installed right around the time this started? Perhaps loading KSysguard might be helpful.
Hi rong,
I would like to thank you for helping me out but I have decided to go back to FC3. It suits me well for now and I need a distro that works relatively out of the box as I will have less time at trying to fix things from here in.
Thanks,
Bryan
*EDIT: I was able to solve my problem and have decided to stick with Suse*
Suse 9.3 by default install kdm as the initial windows manager. The configuration by default requires to be root to shutdown from the GUI.
Find the procedure bellow (please as I use French GUIs some translation might not match one to one the English GUI)
I provide the YAST version first and by direct access to config file in the second part. The secnd solution works beter if you need to do it remotly.
---------------- YAST ----------------
This can be changed from YAST.
select "Security and Users" (one before the last)
sub1 select "Security parameter" (last option)
Sub2a select "personal paramters" (last radio button)
Sub 2b leave unchanged "Paramters for root password"
Sub2c on the screen "startup parameters"
on the last item "stopdown kdm behaviour" select "all users" in replacement of "automatic".
Sub2d leave unchanged "login parameters" screen
Sub2e leave unchanged "add user" screen
Sub2f leave unchanged "various parameters" screen
cllick on "done" button.
==> You can now shutdown from the GUI without root password.
--------------- config files ----------------------------
# su to root
edit file /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager
change the paramter (on my system at line 54)
KDM_SHUTDOWN="all"
save your change
run the suse config script by typing
SuSEconfig
==> You can now shutdown from the GUI without root password.