Re: Help needed

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Hoon Kiat Ng wrote:

> type in 'startx'. Well, everything seems OK, I got into the GNOME
> environment with RPM. But, problem starts when I click on logout.
> Whether I choose to 'Logou', 'Halt' or 'Reboot', the GNOME closes,
> the monitor turns blank (black) and then, it just suspends.

Ahh, more of an interesting problem. . . to be honest, if you can get X
going and everything, X is probably configured okay - it's either the
software on top (i.e. GNOME), or that below which is doing the damage.

> All keyboard keys and mouse are locked as well. However, the CPU is
> still working. Hence, I have to force the CPU to shutdown by pressing
> the reset button, which is so frustrating.

As well as the virtual terminal keys, try Ctrl-Alt-Backspace: this should
kill the X-server. Basically, your problem now amounts to finding out what
has hung. If you can get to a virtual terminal, or you can kill the
X-server successfully, you'll probably have a software configuration
issue, possibly a power management thing. If you can't get to a virtual
terminal, and you can't kill the X-server, you probably have something a
little more serious wrong.

It kind of sounds like you have a power management problem: power
management should be completely turned off in the bios; Linux should
handle it for you.

Try the key combinations to see if you can get a terminal or kill the
x-server; that should tell you a lot more about where the problem lies.

Cheers,

Alex.

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