[kde-linux] Shutdown Problems

Fri Feb 20 09:18:58 UTC 2009

On Thursday 19 February 2009 15:17:51 you wrote:
> 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

I rebuilt the packages that you mentioned had changed, though the same 
version, I'm hoping something was amiss. I'm also having a terrible time with 
power management. When I unplug the laptop power devil, the plasmoid, makes no 
notice of the change and changes none of the settings. Though lshal does note 
the change. 

I have recently upgraded my processor and that forced me to upgrade my kernel 
to get support for the thermal sensors in the new processor. I have all the 
same modules for the sensors, and all seems to work well, but  only if I use 
cpufreq and not KDE's power features. I'm at a loss and do not know what to 
do. I really don't want to go back to my previous kernel, 2.6.24.7 but it 
worked better than the current 2.6.28.4, as far as dimming my screen and 
slowing the processor speed, but it would not report a temp... 

Any thoughts on that issue?

nathan

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