SOLVED - Pclos won't shutdown

[Maurice]

"as I have reinstalled and updated Pclos twice and got the same problem each time"
Did you use the same installation disk? Presume you checked it etc. Seems odd that scientific works fine but PCLOS does not. Corrupt installation media?

Good point Phil. I see that I downloaded it last May so it might be a good idea to get a new one. Might take a while but I'll report back in a day or so.

Thanks for that.

[Maurice]

Just18 - I checked the graphics card and no problem there.

Phil - There seems to be a problem as I am getting a 404 error on the download site  so there will be a delay till it gets fixed.

[Just17]

Just18 - I checked the graphics card and no problem there.

Phil - There seems to be a problem as I am getting a 404 error on the download site  so there will be a delay till it gets fixed.

The only KDE ISO available presently is the 64 bit test05 ISO.

All others have been withdrawn from the servers.

You will need to wait for an ISO to be added it seems.

You can see what is available here (or on your preferred mirror)

http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/pclinuxos/live-cd/

[Maurice]

Bit of a late resumption but .....

I downloaded the latest Minime2012.08 for a change and it worked well for a time but the same shutdown problem has recurred but worse than before. Whereas it would fail to shudown only occasionally, now it won't shut down at all, neither with gui or terminal. I disabled acpi but that made no difference. I went through all the previously suggested methods including Texstar's replacing .xorg

I get the usual screen verbiage indicating that it is , in fact, powering down, then it hangs tight and I have to turn off the switch on the machine.

Then, when I restart, I find various odd things happening on the screen --- My 6 desktops lose their wallpapers, widgets disappear, or shortcut icons on the desktop and panel change their places.

The only way I can shutdown safely is by resetting the machine and booting Windows XP -- and that is embarrassingly degrading -- I try not to let my wife see what I'm doing.

I have been googling the problem without success.  Any help, as always, much appreciated.

[kjpetrie]

Trying fsck from the livecd (cd /media/PcLinuxOS) fsck I get -- fsck from util-linux-ng 2,18

You have to specify the partition. Otherwise you just get a version report. If you don't know which partition is your pclos one you need to use fdisk -l to see them and work out which is which. It's also good to add a -f option to force a full check of the partition.

Code: [Select]

]# fsck -f /dev/sdxn

where x and n are the letter of the drive and the number of the partition.

The partition must not be mounted, which is why a livecd should be used.

[Maurice]

Thanks KIP. Did that and got three deleted inodes messages at the next boot which delayed the start for a minute but did not appear at the next start. Still won't shutdown though.

[and then..]

Maurice,  do you have any mounted network drives/folders when you try to shutdown...  if so run in terminal (as root)  umount -a

[Maurice]

Maurice,  do you have any mounted network drives/folders when you try to shutdown...  if so run in terminal (as root)  umount -a

Thanks darkages

[root@localhost maurice]# umount -a
umount: /: device is busy.
        (In some cases useful info about processes that use
         the device is found by lsof( or fuser(1))

I looked for such processes, found a few about battery power and shut them down but that made no difference. I can't see anything else and don't know the command to find them Tried fuser but got nothing useful.

[Maurice]

Well - I've finally fixed it.

I pressed Leave/Turn off Computer and whilst it was shutting down the processes I noticed that NIS services had FAILED beside it. So I checked PCC/Network & Internet/Network Center. There I had two entries - Ethernet and Wifi and both were connected. As I only use Wifi I disconnected Ethernet.

Then I shutdown and it worked three times in a row. .

So - SOLVED - again thanks for all your help fellas. Don't know what I'd do without it.