Precise 561 won't power off
Posted: Wed 07 Aug 2013, 14:49
It's a Dell Inspiron 600m laptop. Puppy 5.6.1 full install in its own partition with a swap partition.
After I'd raved about Puppy for close to a year, she dug this lappie out to have me install Puppy on a dual boot with WinXP.
So... of course the installation went fast and easy and everything worked and she marveled appropriately, then... Embarrassment. Wailing and gnashing of teeth and such.
I hit the power off icon and Puppy said it was shutting down.
The screen didn't change and the power down didn't happen.
After more than a minute, I held the power button to turn the lappie off.
Powering on again went fine, grub came up, choice was made, Puppy booted up. But it was as if it was a brand new install. Set screen res, connect wifi, do firewall, etc. Software I'd installed before wasn't on the menu. Package manager didn't list it as installed, either.
Installed Filezilla, but didn't go through other installs again, just hit the 'off' icon to see if Puppy would shut down properly. Nope. Still hung up on the 'Puppy is shutting down' screen.
Had to use the power button again.
Restart. Booted as before. This time the menu showed Filezilla. I installed some other stuff. All showed up where expected.
Hit the power off icon. Puppy froze at the 'Puppy is shutting down' screen.
Is there a fix for this?
Thanks,
Ed
After I'd raved about Puppy for close to a year, she dug this lappie out to have me install Puppy on a dual boot with WinXP.
So... of course the installation went fast and easy and everything worked and she marveled appropriately, then... Embarrassment. Wailing and gnashing of teeth and such.
I hit the power off icon and Puppy said it was shutting down.
The screen didn't change and the power down didn't happen.
After more than a minute, I held the power button to turn the lappie off.
Powering on again went fine, grub came up, choice was made, Puppy booted up. But it was as if it was a brand new install. Set screen res, connect wifi, do firewall, etc. Software I'd installed before wasn't on the menu. Package manager didn't list it as installed, either.
Installed Filezilla, but didn't go through other installs again, just hit the 'off' icon to see if Puppy would shut down properly. Nope. Still hung up on the 'Puppy is shutting down' screen.
Had to use the power button again.
Restart. Booted as before. This time the menu showed Filezilla. I installed some other stuff. All showed up where expected.
Hit the power off icon. Puppy froze at the 'Puppy is shutting down' screen.
Is there a fix for this?
Thanks,
Ed