Re: novice questions
Larry Clayton writes:
> 1. On startup the initial login will not take any input--as if the
> keyboard was frozen. So I go to vc 2 and login. Then I can login at
> vc 1 again. But after I succeed with the password, it still won't
> give me a prompt until I do a Ctrl C. What's happening?
>
> 2. It often stalls at shutdown. I get these messages:
> The system is going down for reboot NOW !!
> INIT: Switching to runlevel: 6
> INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
> INIT: Sending processes the Kill signal
> At that point it stalls--and freezes the machine.
> So I have to reset the machine. Next
> time I bring up linux it has to go through e2fsck.
>
> 3. When I call man, for example man 9wm, I get the response, "What
> manual page do you want from section 9wm?" So I try man 9wm.1 and get
> the same response. What is the appropriate answer to such a question?
I can't comment on #1 & #3, but I experienced #2 when I ran release 1.1. The
ultimate fix was to upgrade to release 1.2
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