When I say "Reboot," Puppy just sits there.

[Mason7373]

when i try to hit reboot, to reboot to windows for my parents to use, it just kind've sits there with the mouse on the screen, doing nothing. help?


thanks,

mason

[Bruce B]

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[Bruce B]

I've seen that before.

My reboot procedure is a bit more conservative and no more occasional hanging.

1) close open apps
2) menu -> shutdown - exit to prompt
3) type reboot at the prompt

[jonyo]

I've also had the odd hang on shutdown with alota open stuff.. shuttin open stuff down first did the trick.

Whats the deal with exiting to promt?

[Bruce B]

I've also had the odd hang on shutdown with alota open stuff.. shuttin open stuff down first did the trick.

Whats the deal with exiting to promt?

It's just more of the same theory, more stuff gets shutdown, before the reboot command is issued. For me, its just a matter of habit, the habit of methodically starting things and stopping things.

In particular with Linux I boot to the prompt, then depending on the session I'll startx. Some distros will NOT let you leave the GUI to the TUI, unless you set the runlevel to boot to the TUI.

This can be aggravating when the system insists you must see only the splash screen when booting and then be brought straight to the GUI, but the GUI won't start and you have to troubleshoot from a GUI that won't start.

I guess its cute. But I'd rather have pure raw functionality.