Fedora 14 shutdown revisited [kmix?]

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 09 February 2011 01:02:03 Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote:
> On 08/02/11 11:56 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > My netbook has the same problem as
> > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=257196 .  To shut down I
> > have to issue the command as root, as the graphical ways show me the
> > options but then ignore my response and refuse to shut down or reboot.. 
> > In that case the user was told to rename ~/.kde/share/config.
> > 
> > I'm reluctant to use the sledgehammer approach,  System Settings has the
> > correct settings for the user to shut down, so that seems to leave me
> > with the config files.  Can someone tell me which config file governs
> > shutdown behaviour?  I would have thought that it might be a global one,
> > but the user mentioned did say that renaming his local config directory
> > cured it.
> 
> I don't know if mine is the same issue but let me chip in and see...
> Typically KDE will not log me out after an update to KDE has been
> installed (yum update). I get the log out popup, confirm, windows start
> eventually closing but KDE will not "quit". What I observe is about 1MB/s
> I/O operations on the drive -- kmix doing something silly (figured it out
> with iotop) and doesn't want to give up (I let it run for some 15 minutes
> to see if it eventually quits...). 'kill -9 kmix' and KDE happily
> completes logout. This does not happen if there was no update to KDE
> components. I've seen this happen 4 times by now.
> 
> I don't want to hijack a thread here so I added "[kmix?]" to the subject in
> case it's something different. Is it just me?
> 
Possibly not the same - I haven't seen anything like that.

Anne
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