Shutdown doesn't

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Thu Feb 5 19:02:18 UTC 2009


On Thursday 05 February 2009 18:37:02 Martin Kho wrote:
> On Thursday 05 February 2009 19:26:18 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Thursday 05 February 2009 17:55:15 Martin Kho wrote:
> > > On Thursday 05 February 2009 17:52:02 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > Starting yesterday, I can't shutdown from kickoff.  The screen goes
> > > > greyscale and gkrellm shows no activity at all - but nothing happens.
> > > > A click on the desktop brings back the colour and gkrellm continues
> > > > as though nothing had happened.  The only way I can shut down is to
> > > > do it from a root konsole.
> > > >
> > > > Any suggestions for where to start looking?
> > > >
> > > > Anne
> > >
> > > Don't have this problem - shutdown with Konsole, Dolphin and KMail
> > > open. Maybe gkrellm caused the problem?
> >
> > Don't see why it would - it has been installed and running as long as
> > F10. It's either an update (and I don't remember one in the last 24
> > hours) or a config change somewhere.  SystemSettings still says that
> > Everybody can shut down.
> >
> > Of course it's possible that something is hanging and that it's waiting
> > for a timeout.  I left it a few minutes, but not for an hour or more. 
> > But if it were that, would clicking on the desktop bring it back to life?
> >
> > Anne
>
> The last 24 hours I only got some kdeedu packages and a lot of 'regular'
> fedora-10 updates. You can see these with the Software Log Viewer (under
> System) Maybe a problem with selinux policies?
>
Yes, I remember the edu packages.  I disabled selinux while troubleshooting a 
couple of other things and haven't got it back yet, so it can't be that.  I 
haven't got access to the netbook just at the moment, but I'll check the logs 
as soon as I can.

Anne
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