Re: [kde-linux] 'End Session' problem

Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 29 March 2008 20:59:28 david wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 29 March 2008 10:19:41 M K wrote:
I really don't like to roll up this discussion again, but it seems like
"splash=verbose" in grub.conf doesn't fix the logoff problem completely.
One of my colleagues told that despite of "verbose" he had this problem
at least one time (after logout, black screen with mouse pointer,
forever) - and yesterday, I had it again, too.

Seems like there is more than "splash=verbose" :-( Can there be any more
reasons? (At least, X can now be restarted with 'init 3; init 5' and not
a reboot).
Do you have any remote shares mounted? I thought that I was getting the
problem again, but I found that there is a long (20-30 seconds?) delay on
a black screen, then shutdown continues. I'm not certain, but I believe
this relates to the shares I mount in fstab. I suspect that shutdown is
waiting for something to either shut down or signal that it's no longer
busy.

Of course your case might be something completely different :-)
FWIW, I encountered that same black blank screen when I logged out last
night. (I boot to a text login, login, then use startx to bring up KDE.)
I have "splash=verbose" set - it does make a difference, but isn't a
complete cure. I do mount some network shares, but not in fstab - I
mount them via SMB4K, and always manually unmount them before I shutdown.

I think it's related to video drivers, but that could be because I
always see error messages from X (trying to use some feature of an Intel
chipset that doesn't exist on this laptop) after I close the session and
return to the command line.

I've never seen such error messages. <sigh> It's most likely to be a
combination of factors, and that makes it very difficult to trace.

Well, on my laptop, the KDM login screen comes up looking as if X
thought the screen was 10 times larger than it actually easy ... so I
disabled KDM. A text login screen works for me, and would probably freak
out any Windows user who tried to start up my laptop. ;-) So there are
probably a lot of factors around to make things difficult to trace.

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David
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