SPAM: Re: [SLE] SPAM: shutdown 10.1

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 09:54 -0700, Robert Lewis wrote:

This issue also applied to earlier versions of SUSE than 10.1 for me.

If I click on K-Menu -> Logout -> Turn Off Computer the screen fades to gray. However, about half the time or more the computer never shuts down. Sometimes if I do it a second or third time I will succeed.

It is waiting for all running programs to exit. You must have some program that doesn't respond when KDE tells it to quit, so KDE won't shutdown You can change it by setting DefaultSdMode=ForceNow in kdmrc But it's dangerous, since you'll lose data in running programs if you don't give them time to exit properly. It's better to find the broken program and get it fixed so it exits when it's told to