Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Bruce B]

Mattrix,

A person who only knows Windows will have some kind of cultural adjustment to
make.

A person who knew Unix will feel right at home.

Our desktops are highly configurable and replaceable. They can be what we want
them to be.

I downloaded Puppy 215CE and booted it. A friend saw the desktop and marveled at
how beautiful and striking it was.

Try it for the price of a CD

Keyboard shortcuts:

To kill X server: leftAlt+leftCtrl+Backspace

The 'three finger salute' for rebooting: leftAlt+leftCtrl+Delete

[mattrix]

[CatDude]

Hello mattrix

[phdzaps]

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

What do I do now?


My solution:
I had a similar problem with wary 5.1.2 today.
What worked for me to fix it was to make the file
/etc/windowmanager contain jwm

After that all those work just fine. Something I did must have changed it. The shutdown programs in
/usr/bin sort-of look for the window manager so that they know what process to kill.
Hope this helps. It helped me.

[Karl Godt]

The scripts to leave X are "wmexit" , "wmreboot" , "wmpoweroff" and "restartwm" . "which" command shows the location of executables .

Take a look into /tmp/xerrs.log for error messages .

[e_mattis]

Hopefully this is the best place to pose this question (if not, I am sorry ) -

Using Lucid 5.2.8 on AMD Duron with 750 MB ram system

I've added a line to the rc.shutdown script at line 47 (just before "clear" and "exec 1> /dev/null 2>&1" lines) to shutdown xampp. it seems to work well, the problem is now when I reboot or poweroff the machine the system performs a filesystem check on boot.

To clarify, system shuts down (shutting down xampp first) with no noticable changes/differences. Upon boot, the system performs a filesystem check (every time).

It's not much more than a hinderance at this point, but it does ssllloooowwwww the boot process as it also performs a filesystem check on the personal storage file.

Question is, does the line need to be placed somewhere else in the script? Should I place the line in each of the wm scripts? Is there a better way of doing this I have not found yet?

All help is appreciated

Thanks!

[nubc]

You have an older computer that may have power management issues. Navigate to /boot/grub/menu.lst in ROX. Open the text file menu.lst, and add 'acpi=force' to the kernel boot parameters. Be sure to Save the edit before exiting.

[e_mattis]

Thanks nubc,

I tried the code, but it didn't fix the problem; still does filesystem check at boot. Went back into rc.shutdown and moved the 'exec' line to after the "clear" and other code lines, got same result - filesystem check at boot. Commented out the 'exec' stopping xampp manually and rebooted - no filesystem check.

I am going to try "walking" the exec file down in rc.shutdown to see if I can find a place where it doesn't effect boot. after that, i guess i will try it in each of the wm scripts and see what happens.

Meantime, any more ideas/solutions are welcomed

[update] So, placed the 'exec' line down to about line 93, just before the ". /etc/rc.d/functions4puppy" line and it seems to have helped. No more filesystem check. unless I find something different, i would say this one is solved. thanks for the assist!

E