Hi, Just having a little trouble getting out of Mandriva 2006. I hit 'restart' or 'shutdown computer' on the screen, and I just get the black 'X' in the centre of a blue screen and at that point, it just freezes (mouse and all)! All I can do is click restart on the computer case and opt to boot into Ubuntu and close down from there. The next time I go to boot into Mandriva, it starts up just fine, but before it does, it gives me a: 'your system appears to have shutdown uncleanly' message. Any thoughts? UPDATE: Someone on a Mandriva forum has suggested that the problem stems from a bug within Mandriva 2006 when using KDE. Quote: "I had the same problem with mdv2006. The only way I could shut down was to open a console, su to root and run "reboot" or "shutdown now". It's a bug in mandriva's implementation of kde and kdm. You won't have this problem in gnome/gdm IIRC. You can change your dm(display manager) from kdm to gdm in the Mandriva Control Center and see if that helps. The dm controls the login screen you get. IIRC if you change it to the gnome dm, gdm, you can logout OK but you have to go back to the login screen and select the shutdown option from within there. You can't shutdown directly from within kde; you can just log out." ............................................................................................................................................................................ Well, they may have a point. I've just went over from Ubuntu into Mandriva 2006 - I then opened up a terminal as root - typed 'reboot' , and was able to get back to the bootloader menu! I have not tried 'shutdown now', but I suspect it will work. The strange thing is: I had no problems closing down Mandriva 2006 before I did a full system restore yesterday - I guess things somehow got screwed up. Anyway, at least I've got a 'work around' now. However, some additonal thoughts would be welcome.
