Power off Button
I have a question that hopefully someone can answer. How can I get my power button to work? It used to work. I guess, here's the details.
Basically, when I run shutdown -h now, I should be able to hit the power button, computer off, no problem. It doesn't work any more.
It stopped working when I tried to upgrade to Woody, failed, screwed up a few things, then reinstalled potato (numerous times, I was trying some stuff out). It works find under Windows 98 when I boot into it (shiver) but it no longer works under linux. It gets as far as "Shut power off". I believe those are the words, basically telling me that it's alright to power off my computer.
I can't figure out what I did different between installs. Or did I screw something up? Now I have to hit the reset button and power off during the bios check. Oh, and my tinkerings I mentioned before involved X, not shutdown, so I doubt it's related.
One more question... before I upgrade to woody again, I figure this time it would be nice to have a back up. Would a simple tar and gzip of my whole file structure (/, /root, /usr, etc, etc) be enough? If I bunged some stuff up and wanted to go back quickly, would a gzip -d and a tar xvf be enough to restore my system back to the way it was? Or would there be something more missing? (BTW, I'm not intending to tar up /proc, /tmp, /dev and the such).
Thanks for you help!
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Patrick Mauro
pmauro@engr.uvic.ca
Computer Engineering, University of Victoria
http://www.mauro.nu/patrick/
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