SOLVED: Logout or Shutdown hangs (KDE 3)

[blackpaw]

If I logout or shutdown from a KDE session the screen just goes black.

If I Ctrl-Alt-BkSpc the I get the login screen if logging out otherwise just the boot screen.

A "sudo shutdown -h now" works fine.

[nowshining]

Re: Logout or Shutdown hangs (KDE 3)

do the following:

sudo chown -R username:username /home/username/

[blackpaw]

Re: Logout or Shutdown hangs (KDE 3)

Thanks, unfortunately that didn't make any difference.

I've seen reports of people experiencing this problem with the ATI fglrx driver but I'm running NVidia.

[lawlezz]

Re: Logout or Shutdown hangs (KDE 3)

Mine was worst. The whole screen hanged. Nothing is able to move. Not the mouse. The Cap lock & Scroll lock light blinks. Hard power shutdown couldn't shut the machine down. I had to un-plug the power supplier and do a hard reboot. Need help here.

[nowshining]

Re: Logout or Shutdown hangs (KDE 3)

did u make sure to change username to ur uername?

[blackpaw]

Re: Logout or Shutdown hangs (KDE 3)

did u make sure to change username to ur uername?

Yup

sudo chown -R lindsay:lindsay /home/lindsay

Ran with no errors.

[nowshining]

Re: Logout or Shutdown hangs (KDE 3)

hehe u could of just said yes. lol :P

[nowshining]

Re: Logout or Shutdown hangs (KDE 3)

try going in adept and removing the aRts sound system.

[blackpaw]

Re: Logout or Shutdown hangs (KDE 3)

try going in adept and removing the aRts sound system.

Alas, that did not work either

However I think I found it - noticed the keytouch daemon was sitting at 6% CPU and so removed that. I now can logout/reboot/shutdown via the KDE menus. It still seems to take longer than it used - there's a good 10-20 seconds of black screen before it moves on, but definitely working.

Thanks - Lindsay

[nowshining]

Re: Logout or Shutdown hangs (KDE 3)

glad u figured it out. I too get the black screen for some time - normal for me @ least.

[blackpaw]

Re: Logout or Shutdown hangs (KDE 3)

I too get the black screen for some time - normal for me @ least.

Ok, thanks

Cheers - Lindsay

[Nate]

Re: SOLVED: Logout or Shutdown hangs (KDE 3)

Just wondering how you knew the keytouch daemon was at 6% if your screen was blacked out. I also have a logout problem (though shutdown and restart work fine), so I'm wondering how to narrow down the culprit.

[nowshining]

Re: SOLVED: Logout or Shutdown hangs (KDE 3)

well after a mess-up with my applets position - i accidently remove the kmenu and so had to remove everything else to just get it back in its position - oh wait...loll i forgot how to do that - anyway I just re-did the positions,, etc..and then noticed a ghost mixer on my bottom tray so I removed it and the 10-s or so delay went down.

I also noticed that with the update or something I can't re-add some the of the apps i used to have.

[blackpaw]

Re: SOLVED: Logout or Shutdown hangs (KDE 3)

Just wondering how you knew the keytouch daemon was at 6% if your screen was blacked out. I also have a logout problem (though shutdown and restart work fine), so I'm wondering how to narrow down the culprit.

I switched to the text console (Ctrl-Alt-F1)

[bootdoc]

Re: SOLVED: Logout or Shutdown hangs (KDE 3)

how do you remove the keytouch daemon?