Ubuntu

Shutdown from KDE ends in black screen

Bug #71678 reported by dorpm
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Brian Murray

Bug Description

When I try to shutdown my edgy-system from the KDE by klicking the right mouse button and choosing "florian abmelden" and then "rechner ausschalten" (in english it would be like "logout florian" and then "shutdown computer" or something similar) the screen becomes black but nothing more happens. The computer doesn't shut down and the shutdown scripts are not executed. The whole behaviour is more like a crash of the x-server. Neither a switch to a console is possible. Everything is locked.

A shutdown is only available by ending the session and choosing "shutdown" in the login menu. Then the computer shuts down correctly.

The same problem is with "reboot".

What is wrong here?

Florian

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dorpm (dorpmueller)
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Eduard Ereza Martínez (ereza) wrote :

I am having the same problem here, on a Toshiba Satellite A110-180. When shutting down / rebooting from KDE, the only thing I get is a black screen, and the computer stops there.
If I end the session in KDE and then in KDM I choose the shutdown / reboot option, it shuts down / reboots perfectly.

If you need any info (like a hardware list), I will be glad to help you ;)

BTW, this happens on a clean Edgy install.

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dorpm (dorpmueller) wrote :

My workaround at the moment is:

- create a script /usr/local/bin/halt.sh with "sudo /sbin/halt -p" in it
- set permissions for any user to execute halt in sudoers (visudo as root)
- put a "turn-off button" on your desktop that executes /usr/local/bin/halt.sh

That works for the moment.

Florian

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Eduard Ereza Martínez (ereza) wrote :

Thanks for the workaround, it works for me. Now let's see if it gets solved.

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dorpm (dorpmueller) wrote :

Since KDE was updated this morning shutdown from the k-menu works again. But on my computer after choosing the shutdown command switching to usplash does not work correct. During the execution of the shutdown scripts the screen remains black. Afterwards for about 1 second usplash is displayed and finally the computer turns off.

Florian

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. I was wondering if you are still experiencing this issue. Thanks in advance.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and feel free to submit bug reports in the future.

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