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Re: incomplete shutdown?



Richard Lyons wrote:
I managed to eliminate the graphic login by unlinking the k, x, and g desktops in /etc/rc2.d. That did what I expected, and allowed me to login at the terminal. But 'shutdown now' seems to only partly shut down, leaving me with a 'Enter root password... or ctl-D for...' message. Is it okay to power down from that state? Sorry if that is a dumb question, but I'm new to debian.

On Debian, for the default only root can use shutdown,
I don't know why u have such a message for ordinary user.

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