Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

mattrix · Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 10

Hey All,
I have just got Wary 5.1.1 running from my hard disk. (frugal install).
It found my hardware and started X; and connects to the internet.
I'm typing from sea-monkey now!
Very win95!
But I keep double clicking to open things and get 2 windows! is this configurable?
Anyway, having got it going I wanted to exit and save my settings and restart it normally but these menu entries do nothing

menu/shutdown/power-off computer
menu/shutdown/Exit to prompt
menu/shutdown/Reboot computer

What do I do now?
pull the plug?

sfeeley · Joined: 14 Feb 2010 Posts: 807

mattrix · Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 10

But how do I power-off? the shutdown menus do nothing!.

r1tz · Posted: Mon 21 Mar 2011, 08:02 Post subject:

single click will open stuff. Duoble click will open two stuff.

Yes, you can change this.

Open the file manger, rt click, options.

Choose single click navigator under filer

Uncheck single click to open under pinboard.

Smile

r1tz · Posted: Mon 21 Mar 2011, 08:11 Post subject:

Try. Crtl-Alt-Delete, then type "poweroff'

Try running the shutdown script in /etc/rc.d

Check if you have a corrupted download. md5sum or something

r1tz · Posted: Mon 21 Mar 2011, 08:11 Post subject:

EDIT: Repeated post
EDIT2:http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=58921
Its Pupshutdown, a nice gui. Might help.

mattrix · Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 10

Thanks for the help,

Cnt-alt-del does nothing either.
I checked the md5 when I got it.

how do I shut down X. can I do it from within a terminal?
will power-off work from a terminal?

or will the above upset X?

r1tz · Posted: Mon 21 Mar 2011, 09:07 Post subject:

Im so sry! i meant to say "crtl-alt-backspace"

mattrix · Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 10

Thankyou,

That worked a treat.

bigpup · Posted: Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:08 Post subject:

mattrix · Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 10

Hey bigpup,

I manually extracted the files and copied them across. I just wanted something running.

Current hardware is as follows,

Duron 700 Mhz, VIA chipset
384MB ram
STB Velocity 4MB AGP graphics (Riva VPU)
HDD with GRUB2 in MBR & 4 partitions
-sda1 ext2 (boot) with grub and puppy kernel
-sda2 fat16 (xfer)
-sda5 swap
-sda6 ext2 with directory containing,
* initrd.gz
* wary_511.sfs
* warysave.3fs

I do want to move the HDD to other hardware, will puppy detect this change and load the appropriate things?

This may be relevant, when I "poweroff" it shuts down puppy but doesnt shut down the ATX power supply.

matt

ps
is initrd kept in ram?
where is root switched to? (a point on initrd?)

Bruce B · Posted: Tue 22 Mar 2011, 13:30 Post subject: Re: wary 5.1.1 Cant shutdown?

Bruce B · Posted: Wed 23 Mar 2011, 03:38 Post subject:

Using Lupu 5.20

I've had a similar problem. After this topic started I did some testing, and
have some success to report.

First: I do an orderly shutdown. Close all applications, exit to prompt,
then type reboot

Without a long boring description, I will just say, it wasn't behaving like it
should. Usually it would reboot. Sometimes I'd have to help it with a three
finger salute. On a couple occasions, the kill button.

Experimenting, I typed in this command:

reboot;reboot

So far it works every time.

~

mattrix · Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 10

bigpup · Posted: Wed 23 Mar 2011, 05:42 Post subject:

Looking at where you have Puppy installed.
Looks like you have a frugal install of Puppy.
Usually all the Puppy files are installed to the same location.
Should be 4 files when you make a save file.
* initrd.gz
* wary_511.sfs
* warysave.3fs
* vmlinuz

Could be chance your download of Puppy was not good.
Noticed you have a .3fs save file on an ext2 formatted partition. Should not cause problem, but who knows.