[Klug-general] Fedora 8

[Andrew Miller (Spode)]

Mike,

I would suggest going to the tty3, and then running "init 0" to go to 
runlevel 0. As you're at console, you should be able to see each service 
shut down and *might* be able to see what's going on.

Spode

Mike Evans wrote:
>
>> When is GTK going to get a burner in the same league as k3b? I'd love 
>> a G3b :)
>>
>
> Well I decided to give Core 8 a go.  I downloaded the CD live version 
> on FTP and checked out the checksum with shda1sum.  I burned it to an 
> unbranded cheapo disk I had (using k3b, running under Gnome on Fedora 
> Core 6) and when I tried to boot from it I got errors about a bad 
> block.  I put this down to my cheapo CD-Rs and bought a fresh back at 
> WHSmith.  I re-burned the image in half the time the next evening so I 
> reckoned that the old disks just needed chucking.  Then I booted from 
> the new one.  I got the same bad block message (the same block even) 
> in the same place.  However it did go ahead and boot in the end.  Go 
> figure.
>
> Anyway I had a nice play so I installed it to a spare partition on my 
> laptop and all went well.  Had a lovely evening getting the bcm43xx 
> wireless driver working.  (Had to go get it from various sites rather 
> than the nice "just click here to install something bad for you" 
> approach of Ubuntu)  Then I spent an amazing amount of time playing 
> with the visual effects of wobbly windows and the cubic desktop.  Then 
> I tried to shut down and the 'puter hung.  Seems like the same prob 
> I've been having with Ubuntu on either shutdown or logout or switch 
> user. Pain in the neck.  So undignified having to force a power-down.  
> Anybody got any ideas on how I can trace or step-through the shutdown 
> sequence bit by bit to see where it goes wrong?
>
> Mike
>
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