I upgraded from Fedora Core 6 to Fedora 7 using the DVD. Everything seems to work. The problem of not able to shutdown started after running yum update.

yum update had almost 400mb on updates for me available, and all installations went without problem.

The problem is that if I try to logout, reboot or try to shutdown the system "hangs" with only the top Gnome bar and default background picture. I cannot find anything in the usual log files.....

The system is based on a Asus P4S800D-E Deluxe mainboard and Asus FX-5200U 128mb VGA AGP card. The current hard drive is a WD 250GB 16mb cache pata drive.

The whole problem is pretty annoying as I cannot find the source of the problem. So anybody having the same issues with Fedora 7?

To eliminate Gnome display manager as the culprit, try shutting down from command line with command as root:
The (-h) is for halt, to restart, replace it with (-r), if it shuts down properly via command line, then it is a GDM issue. You can then try un-installing it and re-installing with yum, or try another display manager like XDM, maybe ever KDM.

My hanging at shutdown seems to be fixed in the latest kernel update, also it looks like networking speed also improved (the last is not based on benchmarks, just a feeling)

does the halt command do the same thing as shutdown. I was unable to locate the /sbin/shutdown command and a quick locate didn't prove useful either. However when I executed halt from an ssh shell, it seemed to do the trick. I wont know for sure until I get to the remote site tomorrow.

thx

as what user are you executing shutdown -h now ? You must be root to do that ... just a clew

Actually, that used to be a universal way, and did work for my Mandriva 2007, I guess it depends on the distribution now. /sbin is usually in your path so the sbin part may not be required. But if you go into the /sbin directory you will see which ones you can use. I'm in Debian right now and have "halt, shutdown & reboot", and because /sbin is in my path, one probably just hast to type either one of the three and the system should respond accordingly.

/sbin isn't in users' path by default. That's why you should use "su -" instead of just plain "su" with Red Hat OSes.