I hope I am sending to the right place. I really have no idea how to deal with this. I'll have to describe the problem in detail, since I cannot assign it to a package or anything. I have tried searching for a similar problem but can't find one. I am not a complete newcomer, but I am not much of an expert either.
I have a i7 quad core 2600K, running current squeeze 6.0.3 with default Gnome installation. 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel, 8 GB ram. When I try to shutdown, reboot, logout, switch user or Ctrl-Alt-Fn to switch tty the machine does a hard reset and reboots. It does not do this if I use sysv-rc-conf to turn off gdm, so that it boots into a CLI instead of GUI. SO if I boot onto bare CLI, either runlevel 1 or runlevel 2 but with gdm unchecked in sysv-rc-conf, I can work away, run applications, switch ttys, use the network, etc, and then shutdown -h now or shutdown -r now and the machine shuts down gracefully. BUT If I type gdm and enter the gui, then I cannot shut the machine off gracefully, even from an xterm. And if I try to Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to a text tty, it does a hard reset and reboots. Everything else works fine, but this is crippling. It seems to be software because the machine behaves find in CLI mode. It is not a problem with keyboard, or not solely, because I have the hard reset prpblem whether I logout vie menu option in the System Menu or whether I try to do it from CLI. The tty switcher could be a keyboard issue, I support, with the wrong codes being sent, but I have no idea how to fix that, and I've treid reading around the web but I can't find anything I can use. I have an IBM Model M 101 keyboard. X seems to think I have a 105 key board, but I can't see how that can be the problem. But it does seem like it might be something to do with the Xorg config I guess, but I don't know how to fix that. Tried a simple-minded Xorg -configure, but it did not help. !help! Darren gooss...@rsc.anu.edu.au -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/f62e4769ca5d556226be40f10446eaec.squir...@rsc.anu.edu.au
