Hehe - I've just done my first 'hack' - which really means that I made an intelligent guess and it's cured the problem :-) On Tuesday night I set the netbook to shut down, and went to bed leaving it 'doing it's thing'. Next morning I saw a blank but lit screen. Last night I stayed with it and saw the message /etc/rc0.d/S01halt: line 178: [: missing ']' In fact the ']' is not missing, but it needs a space in front of it, after which I now have a clean shutdown. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090409/6b6fd309/attachment.bin