Only root can shutdown does not work

[Rex Dieter]

On 07/13/2011 10:59 AM, Lester M. Petrie Jr. wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am using an uptodate Fedora 15, with kdm as the login manager.  This happens on 2
> different machines, one with a nvidia card and one with a radeon card.  I have gone into
> system settings editor ->  login screen ->  shutdown and set Allow shutdown :local: only
> root.  When I log out, there is a menu button on the login tab with a shutdown button.
> If I click the shutdown button, there are options to shutdown or reboot.  If I click on
> one of those, a window pops up saying I need to put in the root password with a place to
> enter it.  However, if I try to enter the root password, no keystrokes are registered.
> The only way to reboot is to go to a tty terminal, login as root, and do a reboot.  Has
> anyone else run into this and come up with a fix?

confirmed, looks like a variant of already known
kdm dialogs lacking keyboard focus
problem.  See also,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631767
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268988

-- rex