Shutdown and other problems

[Fredh]

Hello all. I am new to Gutsy and have been using it for a while. Very nice

There are a few small things that bother me though:
1) I don't shutdown often but when I do the process hangs at "will now halt". I know I can power down the machine but that is not the idea ist? Doing ctrl+alt+backspace finishes the process.

I have tried editing /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc with TerminateServer=true but to not avail.

2) Superkaramba seems to crash KDE lately (since two days ago). I have liquid weather, Kclock and the mile calander running. When I leave the desktop for a while, like over night the clock has stopped and the widgets won't reload. So when I d ctrl+alt+backspace the machine actually shuts down

Bthw I am running on a PIV 2.6 cpu, 1GB ram and ati radeon 9250 pro video card with the gutsy default xorg.config.

Any ideas would be a great help

[Qqmike]

Re: Shutdown and other problems

Re shutdown, you already tried the fix that worked for me. Others have said that they are able to shutdown/restart if they first log out to the introductory log-in screen, where you sign in with your PW and you have that small icon to the left, from which you can choose shutdown or some-such.

[Fredh]

Re: Shutdown and other problems

Thank you mike for the help.
Is there no other way?
Bthw doing ctrl+alt+backspace shuts down the machine nicely but doesn't give me logout

[Fredh]

Re: Shutdown and other problems

This seems to be a Kubuntu (Gutsy?) hing. I just installed the 4.0 beta of mint kde community and it has exactly the same behavior.

Oddly from recovery mode in both I can do ctrl+alt+backspace and get back to the prompt.

I have a friend with a beta of mepis 7.0 and he has no issues at all with loging out of shutting down. I will try and copy his kdmrc file to my system and see if that works. But I am sure there is something else involved. At boottime my loginscreen now goes black imediately. Pressing the tabular gets me back to the login screen.more

[dibl]

Re: Shutdown and other problems

I'll venture a guess that the shutdown/bootup problem is video-related. I don't think the driver or the xorg.conf configuration is quite right for that ATI card.

Superkaramba seems a bit buggy to me, on my system too, which is very different from yours. I uninstalled it after observing some goofiness, not unlike what you are seeing.

[Fredh]

Re: Shutdown and other problems

Thank you dible. well for what it's worth here is my xconfig:

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
# path to defoma fonts
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "i2c"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "ch"
Option "XkbVariant" "de_nodeadkeys"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "stylus"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "eraser"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "cursor"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]"
Driver "ati"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Acer AL1951"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]"
Monitor "Acer AL1951"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

It worked fine up until a few days (maybe a week?) ogo. I wonder if it was with the last xorg-server upgrade? I take it that ait radeon 9250 series is not supported after this year?

I also wonder what happened to superkaramba. It was so stable with gutsy at first but now it shuts down completely after a while and I have o relogin.