HD Install :: Cannot Shut Down DSL

Hi, I have Installed DSL onto the Hard Disk, of a Pentium 1 with 130 Mb Ram.

I had some starting/closing problems when it booted directly into X windows. I changed it to text mode, as I was primarily using it for Samba Print / file Server.

However when I try to shut down the computer using a variety of commands such as

shutdown now /0
halt now
init 6

I have problems. Sometimes the thing changes to runlevel 0 and then awaits some input from the keyboard. At time when I press Enter Key once or twice it proceeds to another run level and finally arrives at DSL halted. But at other times it keeps accepting keyboard inputs and shows them on the screen as CTRL characters and refuses to shut down, I have to later on switch it off and go throught the fsk thing.

Please can anyone guide me why this is happening so ?

:laugh:

Try this:

sudo exitcheck.sh shutdown

or

sudo exitcheck.sh reboot

thanks a lot
I gave the command

Quote

sudo /usr/local/bin/exitcheck.sh

and I got

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The system is going down for system HALT NOW !!
INIT: switching to runlevel : 0
INIT: sending processes the TERM Signal
INIT: sending processes the KILL Signal
free : no such file or Directory
Please mount media containing optional dir and try again

then the computer waits for your keystroke input, however all the keystrokes appear as control characters.

I can switch between virtual screens using ALT F1 - F6
however my keyboard input is not recognised in the rest of the virtual screens.

I ask from where did this 'free' thing come and in which file is it residing ? Can I find it out ?

Someone Help Please

It seems that this shutdown problem occurs every alternate times. LIke once it shall shutdown normally, next time it shall create a problem and when I switch it off the fchk thing come on. and once more after that it shall shut down properly , but next time it will not

Any Ideas ?

I usually use shutdown -h now

but it seems that something (else) is wrong?

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