[kde-linux] Shutdown Problems

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Thu Feb 19 20:32:02 UTC 2009


On Thursday 19 February 2009 19:53:13 Nathan England wrote:
> Hello Hello,
>
> I have a lot of issues shutdown my laptop from within KDE. Not every time,
> but I would say a majority of the time, when I right-click and select
> logout, then shutdown, it begins the logout process and the screen goes
> black and it will sit there forever...
>
> I can hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and it brings me back to the login screen.
> I can Ctrl-Alt-F1 and manually run shutdown -h now and it works fine.
>
> My question is, how do I debug what KDE is doing or not doing when I tell
> it to shutdown so I can see what is hanging up.
>
> I have a USB drive with an encrypted volume that I often use dolphin to
> access, I'm wondering if this is part of the issue, but not sure yet. I
> just began noticing this correlation.
>
> Any hints would be wonderful!
>
I had that problem a couple of weeks ago.  I never did find what caused it, 
but an update a couple of days later cured it.  What distro and KDE version 
are you on?

Anne
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