shinymod

i have a red hat 9 box which i am remotely accessing using VNC, however i cannot get it to reboot using the reboot or shutdown -r commands in console. it says that the system is going down for reboot, then doesnt come back... this is a royal pain because it means i have to call up my telehousing and get them to hard reset every time i want to reboot... it will reboot if i log out user then use the reboot button, but as i am using VNC i cannot actually do that any more as if i log out... VNC of course stops. anyone got a solution?

unfortunately it isnt, it's in a the clara.net colo telehousing, but thanks anyway!

oh right!! i'll try that too! thanks

this is turning into a nightmare... i tried to change the GUI to KDE instead of GNOME to try and fix the su in konqueror problem, then rebooted (got the telehousing to hard reset it) now it wont boot! the monkey i talked to knew nothing about linux so i couldnt get much info but basically i can log into the root account and use that fine, (but can only get console in VNC not full gui) but when i try and login to the normal account (the one it auto starts up to) it gives some error about "your session lasted under 10 seconds this could be installation error" or something or other. i assume this problem is to do with trying to switch to KDE, so i need a way of changing the GUI back to GNOME on the main account so that i can log into it and VNC properly... any ideas? i'm lost

thanks, i'll try using that. also i'm running g-nome and whenever i try and start file manager as a super user it appears then disappears immediately, i have this problem on my red hat box at home too. any ideas?