At 2:35 PM +0100 3/14/07, antonio montagnani wrote: >2007/3/13, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> At 9:21 AM +0100 3/13/07, antonio montagnani wrote: >> ... >> >Some misunderstanding comes from translation (I am running Fedora in >>Italian) >> >> Yes, but /I/ knew what you meant. I just don't know the answer. >> >> >When I open the window System/Stop I have three options (buttons): >> >Restart/Cancel/Stop from left to right. It happens when I want to stop >> >the computer.Sometimes it doens't stop and I have to go trhough >> >System/Stop/Stop procedure (always graphically) >> >Problem of acpi=force has been included in one computer to power off >> >the machine!!! >> >> Do you mean that you press the button, it hilites, but then nothing else >> happens, so you press it again, it hilites, and the system shuts down? Or >> do you mean that you press the button, nothing happens, you close the >> dialog, choose the menu command again, press the button, and the system >> shuts down? I ask because if I have the mouse over a button at the wrong >> time it won't actually activate when pressed until I move the mouse off it >> and back on, so I'm asking for more precision here. > >I press the button (it hilites) , window closes but nothing happens: >when I repeat procedure everything is fine. Hmm. OK, so it really is trying to do something and is failing silently. >> For that matter, what happens if you issue (as root) "shutdown -h now"? >> Does that sometime not do anything? Probably it always works, but it would >> be nice to know in order to isolate the problem (if it isn't the button >> itself). > >shutdown -h is o.k. I issued from a su terminal as /sbin/shutdown -h >and it worked Good, though since the problem only happens "sometimes" then you'd probably have to try it this way many times to be sure. Sorry that I can't be more helpful. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
