power off when shutting down in RH9 & stop x

hi all,

i'm having problems with powering off RH9 on my dual-boot system with windows xp.

when i type the command: shutdown -h now, the system shuts down as usual, but when it is finished it says power down, but it won't power down the system automatically, how can i solve this??

**EDIT** by the way, windows xp does power down the system, so my bios settings are correct **EDIT**


also another question, you have the command startx to start the gui, but is there a way to stop the gui? i need this to install the latest video driver for nvidia, and i solved this problem by:
rm -f /tmp/X0-lock
kill xinitd
kill xfs
kill X

but i'm pretty convinced there must be an easier way to do this, i've searched google for both this problems, but i can't find any relevant information....

thanks in advance for any replies..



grtz


lepricaun

Try typing poweroff. :)

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you have the command startx to start the gui, but is there a way to stop the gui?

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Couple of ways:

init 3

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Use the other 3 finger salute: ctrl+alt+backspace

You might need to check ACPI and APM presence in the kernel.

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You might need to check ACPI and APM presence in the kernel.

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they are present, the stangest thing is, that it had worked right after the install, but i must have changed something or so, since it doesn't work anymore :(

i'll try typing poweroff, and i'll try the rest as well....

If it worked after the install then you definetly misconfigured something. Check you Control Center.

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If it worked after the install then you definetly misconfigured something. Check you Control Center.

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the only thing i can think of is one of the services, but as far as i know, the ones i've disabled, i've enabled them again, so that should not be a problem....

which services do i need for power off?

I assume RH uses the Grub bootloader (so far i know) and try to turn it on via your bootloader.

#mount /boot
- Look for the grub.conf, mostly in /boot/grub/grub.conf
- Add "acpi=on" in the kernel line.

For ex. this is a section of my grub, but i added the acpi thingie to show where to put it :

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#Gentoo - Kernel 2.6.6-rc1
title=Gentoo Linux - Kernel 2.6.6-rc1
root (hd1,0)
kernel (hd1,0)/bzImage2.6.6 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/hdc3 vga=0x317 acpi=on
initrd (hd1,0)/initrd-2.6.6-rc1

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Hope this helps,

Depending on what window manager you are using, there is normally a way to exit x; usually via some menu item or whathaveyou. If you are running gnome (which I seriously doubt) then you just access the main menu then choose logout (AFAIR) should be something similar for KDE.

Window managers such as blackbox usually allow you to define your own menus completely so having that sort of option would depend on you having put it/left it in your menu config. But basically, I would check the site for your window manager.

I know this isn't what you want, but if you ever need to bring the console up while you are running x or require more consoles, you can press [ctrl]-[shift]-[f#] (f# being one of the f keys [i.e. F1, F2, etc]) and a new console will come up.

ac

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Depending on what window manager you are using, there is normally a way to exit x; usually via some menu item or whathaveyou. If you are running gnome (which I seriously doubt) then you just access the main menu then choose logout (AFAIR) should be something similar for KDE.

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This will only work if your default init is 3. If your default init is 5 then it will log out of the session but not out of XWindows.

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Depending on what window manager you are using, there is normally a way to exit x; usually via some menu item or whathaveyou. If you are running gnome (which I seriously doubt) then you just access the main menu then choose logout (AFAIR) should be something similar for KDE

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i'm running gnome :) , that didn work either, since i automatically boot x when i log in again :( how can i change this, so that x isn started automatically, and i have to type startx to start it?

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This will only work if your default init is 3. If your default init is 5 then it will log out of the session but not out of XWindows.

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how do i know which is default?

as for the shutdown problem: i've tried the poweroff command, and i've tried adding "acpi=on" in the bootloader (grub) but both of the things don 't work....

Open a terminal window and type more /etc/inittab. (do this as root -- you can use su - to switch if you're on as a regular user). Look to see if you have a line that says id:3:initdefault: or if it says id:5:initdefault:. If it's the first, then you are ok. If it's the 2nd, it needs to be changed to have a 3 instead of the 5. That line indicates what run level you want to boot into. Usually it's set to 3 or 5. NEVER set it to 0 or 6.

To edit the file you'll need to be root. Use one of your fav editors and change the line to have the 3. Reboot and it should ask in text mode for your user name and password. When you log in as a regular user, you can then type startx to start into the GUI interface. I've always recommended to students to always use runlevel 3 as the default rather than the GUI because if you have video issues you can resolve it faster.

Let me know if any of this isn't clear.

so the difference is boot up with gui or not, that should be pretty easy to understand, i'll go and check it right away :)
thanks for the reply!

MsMittens, quite right. I should probably have thought about it more before I posted. The main reason that I pretty much believed that to be the norm is that I've always had my boxes set to boot to the console (after having trouble with video drivers before)

Anyhow...that's handy information to know, thanks.

ac

yes, that worked great, i've got my laptop on init:2 and my desktop on init:3 since that is in the network :) this was a great help!