Only root can shutdown does not work

[Lester M. Petrie Jr.]

On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 12:13:31 PM Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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
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OK, thanks.
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Lester M Petrie
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