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Posted: April 23 2006,00:49 QUOTE
When I want to quit a session on my HD installed dsl, I choose "Shutdown" and my laptop beeps but does not shutdown.  I have to press and hold the power button to get my laptop to shutdown, but this causes me to get an error on the next reboot because the file system was not shut down "cleanly."  Can anyone help me with this problem?
Thanks in advance --Ted
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Posted: April 23 2006,02:34 QUOTE
I run from the CD on my laptop, but I have a similar problem.  Here's what I do:

1. From the fluxbox menu, open up a root shell (Xshells > Root access > Transparent/Light/Dark [pick one])
2. Enter 'shutdown -h now'

I've also done:

1. ctrl-alt-backspace  (That stops fluxbox/Xserver.)
2. At the command prompt enter 'sudo shutdown -h now'

Not very elegant perhaps, but it works for me.

Regards,
jllyrgr
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Posted: April 23 2006,11:50 QUOTE
Thanks for your reply.  I have tried your suggestion and here's the wierd part, my laptop beeps, the  screen stays like it was still in Xwindows, but when I open an xterm it will not accept any keystrokes.  ctrl-alt-del will do nothing after that.  I have to press and hold the power switch to get it to shutdown, which causes the file system errors on the next startup.  I seem to remember that it used to shutdown properly when I first installed it to hd.
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Posted: April 23 2006,19:30 QUOTE
Enough of this, I did a re-install but used Frugal and I am now OK.  Shutdowns just fine now!
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