cannot disable ctrl-alt-del

[krus]

Hi -- I've been banging my head on this one for a while. I've tried to disable ctrlalt delete by editing /etc/inittab:

# What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. 
#ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now 
# commenting it out didn't solve... something else must be catching it. 
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/bin/echo "ctrl-alt-delete has been disabled"

First I commented oiut the appropriate line, then when that didn't work, I substituted in a new action. Still, the three finger salute halts my machine. There must be some other place that keystroke is getting trapped... I just can't find it.

I'm running Kubuntu 6.06, kernel 2.6.15-25-386 on a Dell Latitude D600. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks!

[devnulljp]

Re: cannot disable ctrl-alt-del

I know this is probably a dumb question, but did you re-read the inittab after you edited it?

sudo init q

[krus]

Re: cannot disable ctrl-alt-del

Unfortunately, yes. And, this is persistent behavour over the course of several months (and therefore quite a few reboots), so the fstab and inittab should have been reread quite a lot. Thanks for taking a stab...

[devnulljp]

Re: cannot disable ctrl-alt-del

K->System Settings->Regional&Accessibility->Keyboard shortcuts scroll down to Desktop and change log out to None?
That would at least take care of it in kde.

Might want to also change logout w/o confirmation

FWIW, the changes to /etc/inittab you mentioned work fine on my thinkpad, and vulcan nerve pinch from the console just gives a message that it's been disabled.
So, maybe something in the bios on your dell?

[krus]

Re: cannot disable ctrl-alt-del

Double checked the keyboard shortcuts, and KDE control center swears that both logout and logout w/o confirmation are set to "None".

Thanks for the bios idea... I'll check on that next time I remember to stab the function keys madly on boot.