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On Thursday 12 August 2004 07:39 pm, Gil Weber wrote:
Hi, everyone.
If this has been discussed before, my apologies. I did not see it in the archives, but then I might have been using a poorly chosen search term. If there is an archive discussion and you can point me to it, that would be great. Otherwise...
About half the time when I try to end a session the computer doesn't initiate the end session activities.
I right click the desktop and select "log out," then I select either "end session only" or "restart computer." The pooter plays a sound I have enabled for the commands, but then nothing else happens. It never actually gets into the "end session" or "restart" sequence.
I end up having to power-down the computer with the power switch on the box.
I can also get the computer to reset with control/alt/backspace, but I think that's probably not an ideal solution -- agreed?
Any ideas on how I can trouble-shoot this situation where the computer simply won't reset?
Thanks! Gil ==========
Gil, I believe you have posted this before and didn't get any answers? I'm not sure if I have any ideas, but let me get a bit more info and we'll see. ;o)
No, first time posting with this issue.
Are you logging out of Gnome or KDE? Have you tried both? Gnome only brings you back to the login screen, it, I don't believe, doesn't shut you down.
From KDE. I don't use Gnome (at least not knowingly!)
When you log out, what screen do you get too or does it not go out from the desktop?
It does not go out from the desktop. I'm left staring at my desktop. As I mentioned in the original posting, it first plays a sound (normal) and then just sits.
Ctrl-alt-backspace only resets the X server, but ctrl-alt-delete should tell it to shutdown properly.
Yes, understood. The first time I try to exit the desktop it doesn't matter if I do ctrl-alt-delete or right click on the desktop. It brings up the choices to end session, turn off computer, or restart computer. I can select any of them and after playing the sound the computer just sits. If I try again with either ctrl-alt-delete or right clicking the desktop, now NOTHING happens. I don't even get the screen with the 3 choices. To this point (based on my rather limited knowledge of Linux) my only choice has been to turn off the pooter with the power switch.
Have you tried going to tty1 to shudown?
Had never tried this. New to me.
Press ctrl-alt-F1 and log in as root. After doing that issue the command "shutdown -h now" to completely shutdown or "shutdown -r now" to reboot. See if those work for you and we'll go from there.
I used shutdown -r now and that worked! I have not tried shutdown -h now, but I assume if it rebooted it will also shutdown. So using a command in the shell does work. But I can't get the same function everytime from the desktop. And the problem seems to be occuring more often. It's increasingly rare that the pooter will shut down reboot in the normal manner. Hope this additional info gives you some ideas. Thx. Gil