What to do when it is impossible to switch of the computer

[Rick Chen]

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 05:37 +0200, Liloulinx wrote:
> Hi,
> What must I do when I try to switch off my computer but it dosn't do it ?
> After this, I have done :
> Ctrl Alt F2 + shutdown -F now --> it dosn't do any thing
> Ctrl Alt F3 + init 0 :  it display me this:
>    INIT: Switching to runlevel : 0
>    INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
>    INIT: Sending processes the kill signal
>    INIT: Pid 4182 [id x]  seems to hang
> and it is blocked
> 
> 
> -- 
> Liloulinx (http://freealilou/free.fr)
> 

at terminal type "poweroff"
all else fail you try "ctrl alt del" this should reset the system.