Hi
i’ve had installed opensuse 11.2
And every time when i want to shutdown pc or to log of i have to wait 30 s or to pres the button again.
How can i make that it directly log off or shutdown.
You can log off by pressing and holding CRTL+ALT+Backspace for about half a second to log off ‘directly’. Also when you say ‘press the button’ do you mean press the power button on your computer, or click and ‘press’ the shutdown button on the openSUSE panel?
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Jon.
> How can i make that it directly log off or shutdown.
-welcome to open source and openSUSE-
please do NOT shut down by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace…and then
pressing your computer power button…that is NOT a smooth, safe way
to shutdown your computer…
sure, it will work if everything in your hardware/software system
works absolutely perfectly during shutdown and the next boot which
is FORCED to try to repair any file system damage caused by the
previous incorrect and dangerous shutdown…
also, it should never be necessary to click on “Shutdown” twice or
press the computers hardware power button twice—however, it could be
that patience is always required as it is NOT like turning off your
phone, radio, TV, washing machine, water tap, aircraft engines, etc
etc etc…that is, it is NOT always instantaneous…
instead, there are several ways to correctly shutdown an openSUSE
system, my favorite (and easiest for _me) is to
-right click desktop
-select “Log out [my user ID]”
-select click on “Turn off computer”
then WAIT some seconds…
though the screen does not show it to you the system is going through
and automatic, step-by-step, systematic, SAFE and complete closing of
all running programs (MANY run in the background and you never know
of them), and saving a closing of all log files, application files,
etc etc…a shutdown of all devices and finally a power off signal…
want to watch what is going on? then, after clicking on “Turn off
computer” just push Esc, once…the green screen covering all the
working will drop down and you can see the many different tasks the
system is providing to you…
how long does that take? that is like asking how long is a string…it
takes as long as it takes…and, that depends on what all was going on
when you clicked “Turn off computer” (and, as mentioned there can be a
LOT of stuff going on that you are not even aware of–EVEN if you have
shut down everything you opened (browser, email program, word
processor, graphics, games etc etc etc…shut ALL of that down and
still there are hundreds of things happening…
yes, it might take 30 seconds…or 45 seconds…or more…patience
is helpful…but, realize that you do NOT have to sit and watch the
screen while the system is AUTOMATICALLY packing away all its ‘stuff’
and sending the power down signal…
now, all the above is for a normal shutdown…maybe yours is not
normal and is hanging somewhere for 30 (or 130) seconds and actually
doing nothing (as well as seeming to do nothing)…or maybe your
hangs forever and will never send the power off signal…if that
is the case, say so and we can help with that, maybe…
if you system is actually hanging during shutdown you might want to
try an alternative means of shutting down which MIGHT avoid the hang,
try this:
-open a terminal/konsole and become root with this command:
su -
don’t forget the - after the space, after su…then hit enter and
then type in the root password (you will not see what you type) and
hit enter again…then, this command:
shutdown -h now
if you have to do that to avoid a hang, post again and maybe we can
help more…but, do NOT use Ctrl+Alt+[anything] anytime there are
safer alternatives to try…all of those are things which folks who
know little about Linux hear somewhere it works (and it sounds
comfortable because it is similar to the Windows bail out
Ctrl+Alt+Delete [wimpy] “three finger salute”), and try it not knowing
all the potential pitfalls of taking those kinds of “short cuts” or
“tricks”…
–
palladium