Unbale to shutdown or restart in KDE

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Hi,

every 1-2 week the issue occurs on my workstation when I’m unable to Shutdown or Restart. I click Start Menu -> Leave -> Shutdown - and nothing happens. I mean, menu closes as a confirm that the click happened, but confirmation to shutdown does not pop up and the shutdown process does not initiate. The same if I click shutdown icon in the taskbar.

Sleep and Switch user are working.

Here is the picture showing what icons exactly I’m clicking:

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4612/73339514.1a/0_602ac_a35d88d3_S.jpg](http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4612/73339514.1a/0_602ac_a35d88d3_orig.jpg)

The only workaround yet is to log in into Terminal as root and execute command reboot.

My questions are:

  1. what could cause this issue?
  2. what are possible ways to investigate it?
  3. what could be a workaround to restart the machine without root privileges?

Thank you

openSUSE 11.3
Workstation AMD chipset based, onboard ATI graphics

2

Have you checked the System setings? There is an option in KDE4.6 to manage this and AFAIK there was something in the earlier versions.

3

All settings are default and I did not change anything
The freshly booted system has no problems with shutdown. The issue seems to appear after I suspend to RAM few times

4

Hello, this happens to me after every KDE update. After the updates are applied i run sudo /sbin/reboot/ to restart the PC. After this manual reboot if i use the options from the kde menu it reboots/shuts down as normal.

5

Could anybody provide me a way to restart computer without root permissions?

6

found this pretty nice tool: https://gist.github.com/988104

#!/bin/sh

# Suspend, hibernate, restart or shutdown the computer without sudo!
# by Chris Wong
# Released to the public domain.

NAME=$0

usage() {
    echo "Usage: $NAME suspend|hibernate|restart|shutdown"
    exit 42 # :D
}

if  $# -ne 1 ] ; then
usage
else
THINGY_UPOWER="dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.UPower /org/freedesktop/UPower"
    THINGY_CONSOLEKIT="dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager"
    case $1 in
        suspend)
            $THINGY_UPOWER org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend
        ;;
        hibernate)
            $THINGY_UPOWER org.freedesktop.UPower.Hibernate
        ;;
        restart)
            $THINGY_CONSOLEKIT org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Restart
        ;;
        shutdown)
            $THINGY_CONSOLEKIT org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Stop
        ;;
        *)
            usage
        ;;
    esac
fi
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ok, i downloaded this tool (github), what should i do with it now?

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You should save this text file as, for example, kderestart.sh. Then make it executable, for example chmod 777 kderestart.sh. And now run it from command line, for example ./kderestart.sh restart. This will restart the computer

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On 2011-09-29 20:16, tosiara wrote:
>
> Could anybody provide me a way to restart computer without root
> permissions?

Try log-out of the session first.

If that fails too, then press ctrl-alt-backspace, twice. This will kill the
graphic session and return you to the login screen. There there is a button
to restart or shutdown.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

10

robin_listas,
as I have written in the first post - Log off does not work, only Sleep and Switch user works.
But you are right, as a workaround I can use CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE twise, CTRL+ALT+F1 and then CTRL+ALT+DEL, ALT+SysRq+R+E+I+S+U+B
I was looking for a KDE command that would allow me to restart the system gracefully and I found it

Also would like to inform everybody that after upgrading to 11.4 the initial issue does not occur anymore