[SOLVED] Shutdown?

syn · 2009-09-04 23:51:52

After I installed KDE, I've been having a strange issue when I shut down.

When I go to shutdown [both via shutdown -h now and Leave -> Shutdown] the KDE ending session sound plays, and my screen turns black. Then, the entire screen seems to flicker/flash black then white over and over again, and I get snippets of flashing blue text that will appear and disappear from the top of my screen, which I believe to be the normal stuff that Linux outputs when you shut down. [i.e. "Sending all processes the TERM signal", etc.]

This is excessively irritating. Is there any way I can turn off verbose shutdowns? I think that might solve the issue.

Anyone had a similar experience?

[SOLVED]:

It turned out to be an issue with the current settings of my frame buffer.

I went into my grub config file [/boot/grub/menu.lst] and added a vga= line at the end of the correct kernel line, with the correct resolution code for my monitor.

Last edited by syn (2009-09-09 00:37:33)

djszapi · 2009-09-05 06:08:19

Hello Syn!

Did you try to use poweroff too ?

syn · 2009-09-05 16:00:36

djszapi wrote:

Did you try to use poweroff too ?

Yes.

poweroff
shutdown -h now
reboot

All had the same effect.

I'm going to install some other WM or DE today, I'll see if it has the same effect.

syn · 2009-09-08 04:37:28

Quick update.

I installed openbox and had no issues with this.

I went back to KDE and continued to have issues, so I did a fresh install of Arch, assuming I misconfigured something.

And it's doing the same thing again. I'm in the process of downloading KDEmod to see if this solves my problem. Anyone else have ideas?

sand_man · 2009-09-08 05:18:27

not too sure but does KDE need to be started with ck-launch-session?

syn · 2009-09-08 13:10:09

I read up on that, and it looked to me like you only need to use that if you are having PolicyKit issues.

I wasn't, so I disregarded that. I guess I probably should have given it a shot before I dumped everything.

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#1 2009-09-04 23:51:52

[SOLVED] Shutdown?

#2 2009-09-05 06:08:19

Re: [SOLVED] Shutdown?

#3 2009-09-05 16:00:36

Re: [SOLVED] Shutdown?

#4 2009-09-08 04:37:28

Re: [SOLVED] Shutdown?

#5 2009-09-08 05:18:27

Re: [SOLVED] Shutdown?

#6 2009-09-08 13:10:09

Re: [SOLVED] Shutdown?

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