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Since I installed KDE 4 the shutdown and restart options did not work. Clicking on them does... nothing at all. I think I posted about this before but none of the solutions worked. I've got by by logging out and shutting down from the KDM login screen.
But now suddenly the log out option has stopped working. Worse still, it hard locks my machine with a text-mode cursor in the top-left corner of the screen. None of the usual techniques can bring back the system after that. WTF?
Edit: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace locks my machine in the same way. Maybe the ATI Catalyst drivers are to blame?
Last edited by shaurz (2009-01-21 21:28:26)
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More information might be good. What drivers are you using, and what are "the usual techniques"?
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By usual techniques I mean trying to kill the X server or bring up a text console. I think the machine is still running OK, I could set up sshd to test.
System is running 64-bit Arch, a clean install on a new machine a few months ago when KDE 4 packages were out. Graphics card is Radeon HD 4850. Using the latest straight kernel and catalyst from pacman, not using testing repo.
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Since I installed KDE 4 the shutdown and restart options did not work. Clicking on them does... nothing at all. I think I posted about this before but none of the solutions worked. I've got by by logging out and shutting down from the KDM login screen.
But now suddenly the log out option has stopped working. Worse still, it hard locks my machine with a text-mode cursor in the top-left corner of the screen. None of the usual techniques can bring back the system after that. WTF?
Edit: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace locks my machine in the same way. Maybe the ATI Catalyst drivers are to blame?
If it is the Catalyst drivers, try installing xf86-video-ati and libgl just to see if it works better. When you've When you've installed xf86-video-ati, try starting X completely without an xorg.conf. Might do the trick, it made all my ATI and X problems go away.
Last edited by BeholdMyGlory (2009-01-21 21:48:42)
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Cheers, that solved the logout problem. I guess I'll have to live without the binary drivers for now. It's not like I play any games on Linux anyway, and it seems to be fast enough for 2D.
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It's an issue with 8.12. Downgrading to 8.11 solves the problem (at least for me).
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Hmm, I created a new user account and logged in... and the restart/shutdown buttons worked. I must have a bitrotted config file somewhere.
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