Kamran Ahmed wrote: > 1. Whenever I try to shutdown or restart it comes up with the message > "System halting" when shutting down and nothing happens, it displays > "stand by while the system is restartin...." still nothing happens. I just > get a blinking cursor. Eventually in the end I have to restart or shutdown > by pressing the power on m PS3 manually. > > 2. When I try to mount any USB external hard drive, I get a message for > "Unable to mount", when i check the details it shows that there was an > improper shutdown/restart. This issue could be in turn related to the > above issue. Is there any way I could forcefully mount the External USB > Hard drive. This doesn't seem to have anything to do with NetworkManager (the title)? If I had your problem, I would get Knoppix, or a similar Linux-on-a-CD, and run e2fsck on your partitions (particularly the one with / on it). Then I would try mounting your USB drive from Knoppix. > 3. Thirdly, I do not have an internet connection enabled on my PS3, > hence I cannot download and install the YUM Updates. Is there any way that > I can manually download the updates and then install them on fedora 8 ppc. What do you mean by "manually download"? Do you mean you have another computer that is connected to the internet?
