[KDE4.2] System freezes when laptop lid is closed.

[Kevin Kofler]

ap wrote:
> I have a Dell Inspion laptop which runs Fedora 10 with KDE4.2. When my
> laptop lid kept closed for more than 30 minutes, my system freezes. I have
> given option to lock the screen while closing the lid in the Power
> Management. and for a short time period ( < 30 mins) it works fine. After
> 30 minutes i get a blue screen and a mouse pointer. I can move the mouse
> but no login window is coming. (If it is monitor stand by, how to recover
> from this state?)

This is probably http://bugs.kde.org/183273 which is fixed in
kdebase-workspace-4.2.1-12, but that hasn't been pushed as an update. It
will get fixed with the KDE 4.2.2 update coming soon.

        Kevin Kofler