prolly dumb questions?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 14:28 -0700, Bob Hemus wrote:
> Folks, when I turn on and boot into any distro and the program loads on
> the screen, how do I get it to slow down or even stop and restart so's
> I can see what's wrong?  Same thing when I log off.  Also, when I
> shutdown with the GUI, right click -> log out "bob" on my SuSE 10.1 it
> is SLOW.   When I go to a su - terminal and <shutdown-h now> it goes
> down quickly.  This doesn't cause any harm, I hope?

/var/log/boot* and /var/log/messages files list most of this. Of course,
this is only good if it boots to the point you can look at the file
system.

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Roger Oberholtzer