How do i shutdown

[RodneyMargis]

I jsut installed suse linux 8.1 professional. i installed 2 discs of software. this is the seond time i have installed it. this time there is not a button to shutdown it just logs out and does not give me the option of shutting down.

[kilgoretrout]

Until you get it figured out, you can run the following from a console:

$ su
[enter root password]
# halt

When you log out there should be a button on the bottom of the login screen called "Shutdown". Are you sure it's not there?

[RodneyMargis]

yea bc the last time i had it installed i would log otu then it would have a button for me to shutdown, but this time there isnt a button. thanks fro the commmand to shutdown.

[mairving]

shutdown -h now also works. Use shutdown -r now to restart.

[bonzai]

Or even easier, at the console type 'poweroff'

[OOPS!]

Are you trying to shut down as a user? If you can only shut down as root, then you need to set the permissons for the users to be able to shut down.

I haven't used SuSe yet, but some where in YAST you should be able to change those permissons.

OOPS!

[RodneyMargis]

i cant shutdown anyway. whenever i select logout. it jsut caries me to this screen that has password and user login it doesnt have an option for me to shutdown

[aym]

press ALT+CTRL+F1, you'll get the command line interface, type:
su
And then root password, then type:
shutdown -h now

[aym]

Correction:
I guess pressing ALT+CTRL+F1 will take you to the terminal where X was started, and you won't be able to enter commands, so instead of that, press ALT+CTRL+F2, login as root, and type:
shutdown -h now

[RodneyMargis]

OKay thanks fro all the shutdown options but i sitll need to knwo how to get my shutdown button back

[kilgoretrout]

OK. I'll take a crack at it. The login screen you get when you first boot up is generated by a program called a display manager(dm). There are two dms incommon use in linux, kdm which is kde based and gdm which is gnome based. Most commercial distros modify one of these two dms to include their logo and additional features unique to that distro. I think what you probably want to try to do is uninstall the dm and reinstall it and thereby hopefully get that missing shutdown button back.
I'm not that familiar with suse but I did recently do an ftp install of suse 8.2. The info I'm about to give you is based on 8.2 but it should be similar in 8.1.However, I have never used 8.1 so proceed at your own risk.

First how to find an unistall the dm. From what I can tell, suse's dm is based on kdm. Go into the Yast Control Center>Software>Install and Remove Software. A popup window will appear and there should be a drop down menu button called Filter. The choices in the menu are Selections, Package Groups, Search, etc. Choose the Search function and in the search field below type "kdm" w/o quotes and hit the Search button. When I did it this is the result I got from the search:

kdebase-kdm The KDE login and display manager

There's a version number and other info which would be different in 8.1. Go to the search results and right click on the above entry and several options will be listed for the package. Before going through deleting and reinstalling the package, you might want to try the update option and see if that fixes things. After selecting "Update", hit the "Accept" button at the bottom and Yast will automatically update the package. Reboot and see if you've got your Shutdown button back. If not, do the "Delete" and then reinstall the package. Reboot again and see if the problem is fixed.

[RodneyMargis]

You were close i figured it out. it has to do with the display manager. i had to tell it to use a display manger somehow it got turned off

[twoguise]

In 8.1 when you get to the sign-in screen ,(after you select "logout" from KDE or Gnome), you'll see three buttons below the login.....................select "menu"
two options given:
restart
shutdown
that's how I get out .........if you find a better way post it!
goodluck

[LocoCoyote]

there is always the old standby of Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill the Xserver then reboot at the cmd line (Or any of the shutdown -p etc etc etc)

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[jglen490]

This may not be exactly what you want, but I have the following in my /etc/inittab file:

ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -h now

Since I always start and end my session at the command line, this allows me to use the shutdown command with the ctrl/alt/del keys as a normal user when I am ready to shut my machine down.

Enter this into your /etc/inittab file (you'll need to be root to modify the file), then reboot and the good old three-finger salute will be available to you for shutdown.