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<br><br>> From: cannewilson@googlemail.com<br>> To: kde-linux@kde.org<br>> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 18:55:20 +0000<br>> Subject: Re: [kde-linux] 'End Session' problem<br>> <br>> On Friday 08 February 2008 17:32:26 M K wrote:<br>> > > On my laptop I am unable to 'End Session'. I suspect that this is caused<br>> > > by something left over from a previous install, but so far haven't been<br>> > > able to find it. I can shut down cleanly and also reboot cleanly, but if<br>> > > I 'End Session' I see about 1 second of normal activity, then the screen<br>> > > flashes and is replaced by a black screen with a cursor in the top<br>> > > left-hand corner. There is considerable disk activity for about 5<br>> > > seconds, then nothing. There it hangs until I touch the power button, at<br>> > > which time it begins a shutdown routine.<br>> > ><br>> > > It looks as though the shutdown is expecting to have to deal with a<br>> > > service that it can't find. I used to start with a previously saved<br>> > > session, but it is now set to start with an empty session. I'm really<br>> > > stuck for ideas to check.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Looks like the same problem I have with KDE... no, not KDE any more, now it<br>> > seems to be X itself. In my earlier mails I wrote about KDE crashing on<br>> > logout (bugzilla.novell.com, bug 336627) and told that after the crash<br>> > there's sometimes only a black screen with mouse pointer on it, forever<br>> > until a reboot - ctrl+alt+backspace and init 3, init 5 do not help. So i<br>> > thought this was a consequence of the bug - but of course, I was wrong :)<br>> ><br>> > Now, after patching the KDE bug, after a logout X STILL sporadically<br>> > doesn't return to the login screen, but stays with a black screen and mouse<br>> > cursor - at least, now I can restart X with 'init 3; init 5' and don't have<br>> > to reboot (ctrl+alt+backspace still doesn't work). Now I don't know if it's<br>> > a configuration error or a problem with NVIDIA drivers (or something else).<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > P.S. Oh yeah, this time there's nothing in the Xorg.#.log or<br>> > .xsession-errors - they both have exactly the same entries as when the<br>> > logout runs normally.<br>> ><br>> Hmm - this is a laptop with an ATi Mobility Radeon X600. I wonder if it <br>> really is an X problem. All the same, if it is, why doesn't it affect <br>> shutting down or rebooting? You've given me food for thought, but I'm not <br>> absolutely convinced.<br>> <br><br>I think shutdown or reboot are not affected 'cause these are not strict X routines, but the logoff... don't know if it's a total trash what I've just said :-)<br><br><br><br /><hr />Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/' target='_new'>MSN Messenger</a></body>
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