Re: shutdown not working in Gnome / KDE
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:44:35 +0100, Peter Baranyi wrote:
> I can only shut down my pc from a root terminal with 'poweroff' (or
> shutdown) but not from graphical environments.
>
> From Gnome2, sometimes it shuts down, sometimes I get back to gdm. From
> gdm, the shutdown action sometimes works, sometimes it just quits gdm.
GNOME2? What Debian flavour are you running?
> In KDE 4.7.4, shutdown in the application launcher menu does nothing, or
> dims the screen.
>
> How do I fix this? I do not see any error messages.
If it used to work, I would report it.
> Debian unstable, 3.1.0-1-686-pae
Unstable and GNOME2? :-?
Anyway, that kernel is old. Try to update it (now 3.2.10).
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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