Dear Brian Cameron, the following indeed shuts down the machine properly: # halt command in gdm.conf HaltCommand=/sbin/init 0 Thank you very much. Regards, Rob de Graaf email: rdegraaf at rdegraaf dot nl pgp: http://www dot rdegraaf dot nl slash pgp On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:36:15 -0500 Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM> wrote: > > Hello, > > > I'm running gdm on FreeBSD5.2 on a laptop and I am having the following problem: > > > > When the machine is halted from the GDM Greeter, the Greeter stops but X restarts.After a certain point the display turns into chaos; nevertheless a complete shutdown is performed and the machine turns itself off. > > When I do a reboot, the Greeter stops and X does not restart; thus the normal shutdown commands are visible and the reboot is performed. > > > > Does anybody have any idea why X does restart on Halt command? > > > > configurationfile gdm.conf is attached > > Note that in your gdm.conf file your HaltCommand is defined as follows: > > HaltCommand=/sbin/shutdown -p now;/usr/sbin/shutdown -p now > > Not sure why the shutdown command isn't doing what you want, but perhaps > you might check what the best shutdown command for FreeBSD is and use that > instead. > > Perhaps changing this to "/usr/sbin/init 5" or "/usr/sbin/init 0" might work better. > > Brian
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