Cant Reboot........

randon · 10-15-2003, 09:49 PM

Hi all, I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and I'm finding out that I can't reboot. I can shut down, but when I go to log off and it gives me the option to reboot, I click reboot and nothing happens. I mean nothing. I sat there for 5 minutes waiting to see if anything would happen but nada thing. If I click on HALT, that works fine. I haven't tried any other command yet, cause i'm still a noob and am not familiar with any command lines yet.
Any suggestions?
Any would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks in advance
RANDON

Mad Merlin · 10-15-2003, 09:50 PM

Try init 6 as root, ie, from a console:

su
(enter root password)
init 6

That should restart the computer.

randon · 10-15-2003, 10:18 PM

thanks, i will try that......

porous · 10-16-2003, 03:05 AM

u may consider

#su -

it will set your env variables to roots , (giving lenghty paths can be irritating)

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