Hi all,
I know I posted before that I switched to Suse but I decided to switch back to Mandrake because Suse lacked alot of important stuff that I needed but Mandrake had almost everything I needed (python, all the c libraries and compilers to run programs...).
When I installed Mandrake before I never had any problems with a shutdown option not being available. In Suse I would have to click 'log off' and then go to the menu on the log-in screen to click shutdown and enter the root password to shutdown. After wiping Suse from the hd, I reinstalled Mandrake.
It doesn't matter if I am root or under my username, no matter which desktop (my system installed KDE,IceWM by default), I have no shutdown option available and when I go to the command line to type 'halt system' it shows a list of options to try and I tried a shutdown option but it wouldn't work. Is the software/os/kernel somehow corrupted or could it be the hardware?
I have to turn the pc off by manually pressing the button. I know it's bad to but I know no other way to shutdown.
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I'm sorry to bother. Thank you