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oldhoghead · by **oldhoghead** on Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:30 pm

anticapitalista,

logging out either to reboot or shutdown results in black screen, and even skinny elephants won't execute shutdown, only alternative is to power off.

Next restart tried to go to a virtual terminal ctrl-alt-f4,f1, etc got a black screen and had to power off.

Restarted and opened root terminal did shutdown -h now and got a normal shutdown.

don't know if these are just my issues or if anyone else are experiencing these issues

cheers
oldhoghead

anticapitalista · by **anticapitalista** on Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:36 pm

Try logging into icewm desktop and see if the same happens when you logout and then type reboot or halt followed by root password at login screen.

oldhoghead · by **oldhoghead** on Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:40 pm

sorry,

was editing my post at the same time you replied, I have a few chores to take care of, and will try the other suggestions. Will get back here in a few hours.

cheers
oldhoghead

oldhoghead · by **oldhoghead** on Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:16 pm

anti,
tried what you suggested, first time when I ran reboot the computer shut down normally, logged back into icewm then went to logoff and got the black screen again. Tried a couple of more times and could never get back to the logon screen.

cheers,
oldhoghead

Jerry · by **Jerry** on Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:10 am

I am getting a hang shutdown sporadically, goes to black screen and stops. Probably 1 out of 5 times.

oldhoghead · by **oldhoghead** on Sat Apr 12, 2008 3:40 am

anticapitalista,

Have tried to shutdown using a variety of methods, all have ended in a black screen with no way to shutdown except to power off, I have never had this problem with previous antiX versions, nor have I had this in Mepis 6.0, 6.5 or 7.0, so something is different with this release. Virtual terminals, su then shutdown -h now, halt all end with black screen and no keyboard response. Any ideas? I have perused all the files and scripts to see if I could determine what the issue was, but alas I am drawing a blank. I booted up with vesa and still could not logoff, shutdown, or reboot properly. Logged on to icewm and only got a proper reboot once.

cheers
oldhoghead

anticapitalista · by **anticapitalista** on Sat Apr 12, 2008 3:55 am

Not sure what the problem is as I don't have this problem on my box.
I read that there may be a problem with mounted drives, usb or whatever that could cause this.

Are you rebooting/logging out/shutting down through the fluxbox menu?

Edit: Maybe your box doesn't like the rox-desktop. Try disabling it in /home/username/.fluxbox/startup file.

#comment out the rox-pinboard part, logout and login to a fluxbox desktop the try a reboot/shut down from the menu.

eriefisher · by **eriefisher** on Sat Apr 12, 2008 4:09 am

How old is the box? Do you have ACPI enabled? maybe acpi=force on the boot options line?

eriefisher

oldhoghead · by **oldhoghead** on Sat Apr 12, 2008 4:12 am

anticapitalista,

well, did some more reading, and should have tried

topcat's solution

I searched for xkill in synaptic and it returned "x11-utils" (which per the package description includes xkill), so I installed it and the one lib dependancy it required, and Logout now works. Things are shaping up nicely.

after installing x11-utilities all is well

shutdown, logout, reboot all perform as expected, I apoligize for the false alarm, still loving antiX it is the fastest and most efficent distro around, makes an old box fly!!!!!

cheers
oldhoghead

Jerry · by **Jerry** on Sat Apr 12, 2008 2:08 pm

anti's comment about problems with mounted drives may account for my sporadic problems, which may have come while I was working on the question of how to access the WP side of the laptop (posted earlier).

I'll test that.

Edit: no, that did not reproduce the problem--which BTW seems to have disappeared now.

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