shutdown problem in fluxbox

[botoo]

Hi
Finally i decided to post. this is my first post for gentoo,by the way .I have been installing gentoo to where i want. Read lots of posts and it 's been three exciting days. Learnt alot about my computer now. Thanks Gentoo. Ok, there is a small problem.
I got fluxbox working. but i could not shutdown computer from fluxbox. i have sudo set up without password. (so sudo shutdown -h now should work) but not even root can shutdown. it actually did once. that is. what happen was it closed all the windows and hang. cant move mouse and anything, all lock. the way flluxbox start is that i rc-updated xdm and displaymanager is gdm. I also noticed when i shutdown from gdm login manager, there is error shuting down gdm.
any suggestions.
Thanks
James

[ikaro]

got any messages in the syslog when issuing the shutdown command ?
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[botoo]

HI
That is the good question.. which log should i check? i got plenty of logs in var/log/. i checked xorg.log. not much in there. only about starting log
Thanks
James

[ikaro]

ermm /var/log/messages or /var/log/everything/messages or something
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linux: #232767

[botoo]

hi I checked xorg.conf and messages .i also checked gdm/*.log files. but nothing unsual.
this is wat messages said. i sent halt , then it closed all the windows and hang, hard disk not spinning anymore. have to restart to get back into.


Aug 9 02:05:57 JamesComputer sudo: james : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/james ; USER=roo
t ; COMMAND=/bin/cat /var/log/messages
Aug 9 02:06:14 JamesComputer sudo: james : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/james ; USER=roo
t ; COMMAND=/bin/cat /var/log/messages
Aug 9 02:09:00 JamesComputer sudo: james : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/james ; USER=roo
t ; COMMAND=/sbin/shutdown -h now
Aug 9 02:09:00 JamesComputer init: Switching to runlevel: 0
Aug 9 02:09:04 JamesComputer sshd[5560]: Received signal 15; terminating.
Aug 9 02:09:05 JamesComputer syslog-ng[5235]: syslog-ng version 1.6.5 going down
Aug 9 02:12:15 JamesComputer syslog-ng[5224]: syslog-ng version 1.6.5 starting
Aug 9 02:12:15 JamesComputer syslog-ng[5224]: Changing permissions on special file /
dev/tty12
Aug 9 02:12:15 JamesComputer Linux version 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 (root@livecd) (gcc versi
on 3.3.5 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.5-r1, ssp-3.3.2-3, pie-8.7.7.1)) #1 SMP Sat Aug 6 07:33:42
EST 2005
Aug 9 02:12:15 JamesComputer BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Aug 9 02:12:15 JamesComputer BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
Aug 9 02:12:15 JamesComputer BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserve
d)
Aug 9 02:12:15 JamesComputer BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserve
d)
Aug 9 02:12:15 JamesComputer BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000bff0000 (usable)
Aug 9 02:12:15 JamesComputer BIOS-e820: 000000000bff0000 - 000000000bff8000 (ACPI da
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[botoo]

I guess the problem must be something to do with gdm. when i start fluxbox with startx , it is ok to shutdown. so i am changing to xdm to log in with. oh well, gdm only give me nice log in screen.