[gentoo-user] Problem after emerge --update --deep world

[gentoo-user] Problem after emerge --update --deep world

[C. Beamer]

Hi all,

This issue is related to my desktop.  Bear with me while I give some
background details.

A couple of months ago, I followed the MySQL Upgrade Guide to upgrade
MySQL.  At that time, some configuration files were changed.  I don't
know specifically if those changes had anything to do with a problem
that developed.  The problem was that when I logged out of KDE and chose
to either restart or shutdown the computer, neither of these occurred. 
The monitor would shut off, but not the computer.

A week or so ago, I did the gcc upgrade using the GCC Upgrade Guide and
much to my pleasure, the problem of not being able to reboot or shutdown
when I selected those choices from the menu on KDE logout disappeared.

On Sunday, I started an 'emerge --update --deep world'.  A number of kde
3.4.3 packages were pulled in (I orginally emerged kde-meta).  The
update went fine.  At the end, I ran etc-update and 4 configuration
files related to kde were updated.  The files were:  klipperrc,
ksslcalist, kdmrc, and libkleopatrarc.

Now, after the update, I again cannot reboot or shutdown when I select
either of the choices from the menu on KDE logout.

I figured that kdmrc, might be a logical file to be causing the problem
and I *did* find a "Shutdown" section in this file with the lines
related to shutdown and reboot commented out.  I removed the '#' and
used the suggested defaults - /sbin/halt and /sbin/reboot.  Well, this
didn't solve the problem, so I tried editing the related lines to
/etc/init.d/shutdown.sh and /etc/init.d/reboot.sh.  This didn't solve
the problem either.

So, in a nutshell, I still cannot shutdown or reboot when I select these
from the menu on KDE logout.

Any ideas here?

Regards,

Colleen
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Re: [gentoo-user] cannot shutdown KDE

[Benno Schulenberg]

C. Beamer wrote:
> and 4 configuration files related to kde were updated.  The files
> were:  klipperrc, ksslcalist, kdmrc, and libkleopatrarc.

Ah, kdmrc...  Don't do that.  :)  Press 2 when that one comes along.

> So, in a nutshell, I still cannot shutdown or reboot when I
> select these from the menu on KDE logout.

Best would be to recover your kdmrc from a backup.

Failing that: Control Center > System Administration > Login Manager 
> Administrator Mode > the tab Shutdown > and allow Local Shutdown 
to Everybody.

HTH,

Benno
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