Re: [gentoo-user] KDE -> Shutdown - Sometimes it's there, other times it's not......

[Dale]

Andrew Lowe wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	Running an unstable 64 bit KDE desktop. Sometimes when it comes time to
> shut down, I go to the "K" thingy on the menu bar, select "Leave" ->
> "Shut down" and then hit the button on the dialogue that pops up, and in
> turn the machine shuts down.
>
> 	Other times, after selecting "Shut down", no dialogue comes up. Even if
> I wait 30 seconds, the default shutdown wait period, the machine does
> not shut down. In this case, I now have to resort to firing up a
> terminal then as root running "shutdown -h now". This will in turn cause
> the shutdown.
>
> 	Does anyone have any ideas as to why sometimes the dialogue, and hence
> the shutdown process, does work and others it does not? Any thoughts are
> greatly appreciated.
>
> 	Andrew
>
> .
>

I had a power outage earlier and had to shutdown.  I noticed that when I
right click on the desktop to get the menu to pop up, it finally popped
up, after some waiting.  I did some KDE updates last night and that was
the first time I recall it doing it on my rig.  Thing is, I have a 4
core 3.2GHz CPU so speed shouldn't be a issue when little else is running. 

It is odd but based on other replies, I suspect a bug, maybe one old one
and one newer one since I just had the problem today after updating last
night.  ;-) 

At least you are not alone. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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