Puppy 2.15 won't shut down

[mlamelas]

i am trying out 2.15 Final and have a problem because when I select shutdown the system freezes. The PC does not shut down. The screen goes blank, altough the cursor remains on the screen, but does not move. I don't even get a prompt to create a save file. Previous versions of Puppy have not had this problem.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Mel

[mlamelas]

I think I found the solution. The problem seems to be the wifi module on the notebook. I blacklisted it on rc.modules, installed the Windows drivers via ndiswrapper, and now I am able to shutdown and reboot.

[Skipper]

I don't know... I had a similar problem, but I don't have any wireless device in my old Pentium II 400 MHz.

I guess its a problem with Seamonkey and Flash 9, Xorg, or GXine (very buggy).

I don't know.

PD: Fullscreen of GXine with Xorg is very dangerous on my SiS onboard video card.

[8086]

I have only been running this distro for a day (but have several years of Slackware, Debian, and Ubuntu experience), but I have already experienced that hte system freezes five or six times!
Every time has been at shutdown or has involved X in some way. The cases have been different, but the last one happened when I tried just typing "reboot" in the console, in stead of logging out, and then typing reboot (or was it restart? Don't remember .

One of the comments above mentions wi-fi as a probable cause, and in that case it might help to say that I'm using the ath_pci driver (Madwifi) for my Atheros card.

[Skipper]

No, it's not a wifi problem. It looks like an X or script problem. And the system actually shutdown, but I can't see the messages, so I have to wait for the fan silence, and press the power button for a seconds.

I should to logout and type "halt" or something.

Script problem, may be.