How do I shutdown my system properly?

**gehang** · 11-27-2006, 01:39 PM

I'm not sure if this should be a fedora question, or a software question, but since I am I newb I figure i'll try in here. If it needs to me moved let me know I will correct it asap.

I have FC6 installed with X-windows and KDE running. In my kpanel I have an option to end the session or to logout. Nothing about shutdown, so I usually log out then from the shell I type shutdown -h now.

I think I may be doing this incorrectlly, becuse everytime I boot up I have to delete the /tmp/.X0.lock file before I can startx.

Is this becuse of a bug in xwindows or in the way i'm closing down?

Any help would be much appricated,

**gr8rcake** · 11-27-2006, 03:18 PM

Just do "shutdown now" without the"-h".

The "-h" halts the operating system immediately whithout gracefully going through the various shutdown scripts.

**Compunuts** · 11-28-2006, 01:46 AM

Once you log out of KDE, KDM should have an option to shut the system down totally. (Sorry I'm not a KDE person to tell you exactly what to click). If you do shutdown -h now should also work and should not have to delete xlock file everytime. Sounds more like a bug to me ( did you file a bug report? ).

**gehang** · 11-29-2006, 07:35 AM

No, I didn't file a bug report, I searched bug report but didn't find anything. I didn't report it because I'm new to FC6 and I figure its an OE and not a bug.
OE = operator error

gehang.. i'll try dropping the halt and see what happens the next few days.. thanks

**nefarious_genus2** · 02-18-2007, 11:35 PM

Ok...so I have the same problem. I reffered to a couple of posts on other forums this is what I got.

1). The file /etc/rc.sysinit contains the script to remove all the temporaries and lock files before shutdown but I have no idea why it doesn't work in fc6.

2). I found out a quick fix where one can clean up the /tmp folder by putting

rm -fr /tmp/* /tmp/.??*

in the file /etc/init.d/sysklogd but I can't find the file :-(. Some more research and I found out that sysklogd was not installed on my system. now I don't know what to do. can anyone add to/correct the information that I have just provided and find a solution to the problem?
thanx

**Schotty** · 02-20-2007, 01:37 AM

shutdown -r now
shutdown -h now
shutdown now

the first will reboot. The second will use the ACPI halt command. The last will use the ACPI poweroff command.