[kde-linux] Shutdown Problems

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 19 February 2009 20:41:17 Nathan England wrote:
> 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
>
Looking back through my mail I see that the problem was between 5-9th 
February.  Since I was away from home most of that time the system didn't get 
updated (and it was a weekend) until the 9th.  These packages were updated on 
the 9th:
Packages Installed:
    fontpackages-filesystem-1.15-1.fc10.noarch
    vlgothic-fonts-20090204-2.fc10.noarch
    kernel-2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686
    vlgothic-fonts-common-20090204-2.fc10.noarch
 
 Packages Updated:
    1:obex-data-server-0.4.3-1.fc10.i386
    system-config-printer-libs-1.0.14-1.fc10.i386
    bluez-alsa-4.30-1.fc10.i386
    oxygen-icon-theme-4.2.0-6.fc10.noarch
    bluez-4.30-1.fc10.i386
    xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-0.15.2-4.fc10.i386
    alsa-utils-1.0.19-2.fc10.i386
    SDL-1.2.13-7.fc10.i386
    selinux-policy-targeted-3.5.13-45.fc10.noarch
    6:kdebase-4.2.0-5.fc10.i386
    xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse-12.6.3-3.fc10.i386
    nash-6.0.71-4.fc10.i386
    1:control-center-filesystem-2.24.0.1-13.fc10.i386
    bluez-libs-4.30-1.fc10.i386
    digikam-0.10.0-0.16.rc1.fc10.i386
    kdeedu-marble-4.2.0-7.fc10.i386
    rhythmbox-0.11.6-20.r6096.fc10.i386
    kdebase-runtime-libs-4.2.0-6.fc10.i386
    kernel-firmware-2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.noarch
    linuxwacom-0.8.0.3-8.fc10.i386
    system-config-printer-1.0.14-1.fc10.i386
    python-crypto-2.0.1-14.fc10.i386
    kdebase-runtime-4.2.0-6.fc10.i386
    selinux-policy-3.5.13-45.fc10.noarch
    mkinitrd-6.0.71-4.fc10.i386
    xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.10.0-2.fc10.i386
    policycoreutils-gui-2.0.57-17.fc10.i386
    anthy-9100h-1.fc10.i386
    policycoreutils-2.0.57-17.fc10.i386
    2:ntfs-3g-2009.2.1-1.fc10.i386
    digikam-libs-0.10.0-0.16.rc1.fc10.i386
    numactl-2.0.2-3.fc10.i386
    6:kdebase-libs-4.2.0-5.fc10.i386
    bluez-cups-4.30-1.fc10.i386
 
 Packages Erased:
    VLGothic-fonts

I presume it would be those three kdebase packages that cured the problem.  
Not sure how that helps you, though.

Anne
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