Shutting down Lucid 528

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Marcel
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Shutting down Lucid 528

#1 Post by Marcel »

Lucid Puppy 528 runs extremely well. Just recently the menu items
"Power off computer" and "Reboot computer" don't work. I can shutdown only by pressing Ctl-Alt-Backspace. MyPuppy is a frugal install on WinVista machine, plus Chrome browser, Open Office, and Chinese (Scim) input.
Any suggestions? Any further info needed? Many thanks.
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#2 Post by musher0 »

Hello, Marcel.

Shutdown problems have been reported now and then, particularly in the latest slacko and wary Puppies. I'm not a programmer, so I cannot offer an analysis or a rewrite of the routines, but I know the following alternative generally works.

Go back to the initial black console with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and type, as the case may be:

busybox shutdown
OR
busybox reboot

In a frugal install your work or changes are saved as you go, so you will not lose anything even if you close your session this way.

Best regards.
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#3 Post by Karl Godt »

I can shutdown only by pressing Ctl-Alt-Backspace
There might be something wrong ..

Ctl-Alt-Backspace should drop out of X to the prompt

Ctl-Alt-F2-3 should switch to tty2 and tty3 consoles .

At the console the CTL key should not be needed to switch the consoles .


Ctl-Alt-DELETE could reboot the pc

probably because

::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/reboot

is found in /etc/inittab

.

The files to look for are shell scripts :
/usr/bin/wmreboot
/usr/bin/wmpoweroff
to kill X and other

/sbin/poweroff
/sbin/reboot

to run
/etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown

and after that
busybox reboot
busybox poweroff

rc.shutdown runs /etc/init.d/scripts stop ,closes daemons and unmounts everything left mounted
before returning to /sbin/poweroff||/sbin/reboot

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#4 Post by musher0 »

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#5 Post by ahoppin »

You might find some useful information in this thread :

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=77450

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