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MetalheadGautham

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From: Bangalore, India

Registered: 2008-07-27

Posts: 143

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KDE not able to shutdown

Shutdown and Reboot options don't appear in KDE 4.2 menu.
I launch KDE from startx, with

exec ck-launch-session startkde

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I tried following instructions here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL
I am still unsuccessful after a sudo reboot.

Any workaround ?

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Chrysalis

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Registered: 2008-07-07

Posts: 155

Re: KDE not able to shutdown

Are you sure you can do that? As far as i know that only works in runlvl5 with a loginmanager, but i could be wrong and maybe theres a way to hack it.

Edit: The work-around i guess would be to uncomment kdm in /etc/inittab and switch to runlvl 5 to start kde instead of startx... or uncoment runlvl5 in intittab too to boot straight to kdm.

Last edited by Chrysalis (2009-04-02 07:07:47)

MetalheadGautham

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From: Bangalore, India

Registered: 2008-07-27

Posts: 143

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Re: KDE not able to shutdown

I heard that using KDM will run X as root which is a security issue...

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Chrysalis

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Registered: 2008-07-07

Posts: 155

Re: KDE not able to shutdown

I dont know, pretty much all other distros do this out of the box so as far as i am concerned its a non-issue.

chaospanda

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Registered: 2009-04-02

Posts: 2

Re: KDE not able to shutdown

I have program with my arch when I reboot. The screen goes black and nothing happen. I thinks I have this problem after I installed lxde.

kaola_linux

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From: Bacolod City/Philippines

Registered: 2008-09-23

Posts: 513

Re: KDE not able to shutdown

Shutdown and Reboot options don't appear in KDE 4.2 menu.
I launch KDE from startx, with

exec ck-launch-session startkde

.
I tried following instructions here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL
I am still unsuccessful after a sudo reboot.

Any workaround ?

How about using a login manager?:) I remember when I was starting my desktop with startx upon starting kde 4 it does not show the shutdown,logout, and reboot as well...

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markisthejob

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From: Cork, Ireland

Registered: 2008-09-01

Posts: 63

Re: KDE not able to shutdown

I heard that using KDM will run X as root which is a security issue...

enabling the kdm daemon should give you your shutdown options.kdm wont start X as root unless you tell it to.I dont use it myself anymore but if I remember correctly kdm doesnt let you start X as root until you change the allowrootlogin setting to true.

MetalheadGautham

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From: Bangalore, India

Registered: 2008-07-27

Posts: 143

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Re: KDE not able to shutdown

Well then, if no user is logged on, in WHO's name does KDM start when enabled in rc.conf ??? Doesn't KDM itself require X to run ?

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Chrysalis

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Registered: 2008-07-07

Posts: 155

Re: KDE not able to shutdown

Even with startx it seems that it still runs as root (root,user), the user is there because it was started from a user shell, but it runs as root regardless. Its the same with every distro out there that has a login manager. If you are aware of any security issuse open a bug upstream. Also i recommend using inittab instead of rc.conf as i explained earlier, heres the wiki page...
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Log … tab_Method