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| 459847 | 2006-06-02 01:01:00 | Hi, I am running Ubuntu 5.10 with the kubuntu-desktop packages installed. I use kdm as the display manager, and KDE (usually) as the desktop environment. Whenever I try to shut down the PC, kdm hangs. This prevents the PC shutting down. If I wait for a while, eventually some of the other stuff seems to close, and I am left with a black background with the mouse pointer. At this point, the PC will not do anything further without user intervention. To make it shut down, I switch to another (text) login and use '/etc/init.d/kdm stop'. The PC will then shut down normally. I have checked the init scripts and that's not the problem - runlevels 0 and 6 are both set to stop kdm. I don't think kdm is crashing because it still seems to respond to the service stop command. Any ideas? Cheers, Bletch |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 459848 | 2006-06-02 02:48:00 | I'm not trying to discourage the use of this forum or anything, but the Ubuntu irc channel is reeally useful. Try getting help there if you want it fast. | mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 459849 | 2006-06-02 03:25:00 | um..i don't have the answer but i do have the same problem i usually log off user the ctrl+alt+backspace that bring me back into login screen then shutdown from there or you can just keep your computer on like i do then you won't find this problem so..problematic :p |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 459850 | 2006-06-02 04:44:00 | ...just keep your computer on...Well, I would leave it on except that this one is in my bedroom - try sleeping with a 747 taking off next to the pillow and you'll see the problem. Cheers for the suggestion mejoblogs - will do. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 459851 | 2006-06-02 05:10:00 | Oh, and post the answer here for reference for others. Try upgrading to 6.06 also. 6.06 is very good. |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 459852 | 2006-06-02 05:22:00 | I will post the answer back here once I get it. I will be trying 6.06 as soon as my shipit disks arrive. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 459853 | 2006-06-02 06:19:00 | Hi, I am running Ubuntu 5.10 with the kubuntu-desktop packages installed. I use kdm as the display manager, and KDE (usually) as the desktop environment. Whenever I try to shut down the PC, kdm hangs. This prevents the PC shutting down. If I wait for a while, eventually some of the other stuff seems to close, and I am left with a black background with the mouse pointer. At this point, the PC will not do anything further without user intervention. To make it shut down, I switch to another (text) login and use '/etc/init.d/kdm stop'. The PC will then shut down normally. I have checked the init scripts and that's not the problem - runlevels 0 and 6 are both set to stop kdm. I don't think kdm is crashing because it still seems to respond to the service stop command. Any ideas? Cheers, Bletch It could be a number of things. Check /var/log/messages for anything strange from X11. Have you tried reinstalling KDE? |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 459854 | 2006-06-02 12:09:00 | Not yet, I hadn't thought of that. Cheers, I'll let you know what the result is. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 459855 | 2006-06-03 02:02:00 | OK, I also checked the processes with top while shutting down - there seem to be two instances of kdm running, even though I am only using one X session. Should this be happening? Nothing weird in the messages file about X11. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 459856 | 2006-06-04 11:01:00 | I haven't forgotten to post back - I'm still working (slowly) around this issue. I'll post back here once I've solved it. | Erayd (23) | ||
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