SOLVED - Shutdown problem

[Maurice]

My wife is having troublesome shut downs. She clicks Leave then Turn off computer and gets a screen full of verbiage scrolling up the screen too fast to read anything. This fast scrolling goes on until she pulls the plug. This also sometimes happens in the middle of things without her trying to Leave.

At other times there appears only one screen of warnings ending with Panic occurred, switching back to text console. But it doesn't go to a console and it hangs with a dead cursor and no response to Ctrl.Alt-Del etc.

She is using version 2012 with kde, fully updated on a Dell 820 desktop.

Thanks for any help.

Maurice

[djohnston]

Pulling the plug is never the best method. Do a filesystem check from a live CD. Boot from the live CD, open a terminal, su to root account, check to see what partitions exist, check to see if any hard drive partitions are mounted, then do the filesystem check(s).

su
fdisk -l
mount
fsck -fy /dev/sdaX

fdisk -l will list what partitions exist.

mount will show if any of the hard drive partitions are mounted. For example, if /dev/sda1 shows as being mounted as /media/disk, to unmount it you would issue the command umount /media/disk.

fsck -fy /dev/sda1 would run the filesystem check on partition sda1 with the "fix" option, and automatically answer "yes" to all questions. Run the check on each partition shown in the list after the fdisk -l command, except for the swap partition.


EDIT: I'm not sure what the "Leave" option you're talking about is. I believe she should just select "Turn off computer".

[Xenaflux]

K-button/Leave/Restart - or -Shutdown

[Maurice]

Thanks for the replies fellas but I'm taking the easy way out and reinstalling. She uses Gmail and spends all her time on Facebook  and the hundreds of 'friends' they all seem to collect there so she doesn't have anything to move over.

I have a few niggly problems too so am going to reinstall as well. An hour or so reconfiguring and a nice new setup once more. What could be easier?

Thanks again.