[kde-linux] Shutdown Problems

[Nathan England]

On Thursday 19 February 2009 13:32:02 Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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

I am running PaysonLinux, a specialized distro that I maintain.
KDE 4.2.0

nathan