[Westwales] Mdk 10.0 Shutdown

[Colin Sauze]

Robert Savage wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Is it me or are there problems in Mandrake 10.0, apart from Kernel 2.6 
>upsetting the MBR?  I've just done a second new install forcing it to use 
>Kernel 2.4 after the first one seemed to have a bug with Kmail, it shut down 
>as soon as you tried to read your mail.  In this second install Kmail works 
>OK but when I select shutdown from the logout menu the system does not power 
>down.  If I do a 'shutdown -h now' from a terminal it shuts down correctly.  
>I assume this is a problem with KDE 3.2, any one any ideas before I bin 
>Mandrake altogether and try another distribution.
>
>Another problem with this install is its ability to lose the mouse after 
>shutdown, I keep having to re-run the config tool on boot up.  Perhaps 
>Windows isn't so bad after all :-)
>  
>

I've installed 2 machines with mandrake 10 both of which already had 
windows and haven't seen the MBR bug. I thought it was fixed in the 
newer 2.6 kernels??

I've only used 2.6.x kernels and not seen any of the problems you 
describe (although I don't use kmail).

The Mandrake 10 errata makes no reference to this bug
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3#install