I have recently created a KDE 4 desktop using suse studio, it boots up fine on my machine, but doesn’t shutdown!! >:(
On my mum’s laptop, which I will be using it most on, (it’s windoez) it won’t start KDE 4 at all! I can use the console, but I wanted to impress her with the amazing GUI and Compiz. And you can’t make presentations or browse the web in a console, can you? 
And sudo poweroff and sudo shutdown -h now don’t work either! :’(
AND I HATE HARD SHUTDOWNS!!
Well, it ain’t worth it because it ain’t savin’ documents. Novell, ya need to work on this.
Lowons wrote:
>
> I have recently created a KDE 4 desktop using suse studio, it boots up
> fine on my machine, but doesn’t shutdown!! >:(
> On my mum’s laptop, which I will be using it most on, (it’s windoez) it
> won’t start KDE 4 at all! I can use the console, but I wanted to impress
> her with the amazing GUI and Compiz. And you can’t make presentations or
> browse the web in a console, can you?
> And sudo poweroff and sudo shutdown -h now don’t work either! :’(
>
> AND I HATE HARD SHUTDOWNS!!
>
I’ve been have a problem shutting down on openSUSE 11.3 MS 7, RC1 and RC2.
There is a bug I opened on Bugzilla, #619754.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619754
upscope
Intel core 2 duo (E7200) | Intel motherboard (DX48BT2)| Geforce 8400GS |
4GB | SATA 320 GB (2)KDE 4.4.4.
A kernel panic?
What is about magic keys/“sysrq” (Alt+Print+…)
to ‘talk’ more directly to the kernel?
To my knowledge they are restricted in openSUSE by default,
by but at least
Alt+Print+s (sync = write buffer on diSk),
Alt+Print+u (unmout = remoUt all read only)
Alt+Print+b (reBoot)
should work also with the default settings
( /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
= 176 = 16+32+128)
Literature:
Oliver Dietrich: Hängende Linux Systeme sicher ausschalten : Magic Sysrequest, c’t kompakt 01/2009, Page 60-61 (in German)
In the net:
with g. - Magic Keys
in en.wikipedia - Magic SysRq key - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Greetings
pistazienfresser
Lowons wrote:
> I have recently created a KDE 4 desktop using suse studio,
what is wrong with just using openSUSE 11.2 with KDE upgraded to
4.4.latest?
what drove you to the Studio?
or, have you tried 11.3 RC2?
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aren’t you supposed to do “sudo shutdown now”
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I am using SuSE 11.2 with KDE 4.3. I went to SuSE studio because I wanted to fit it on a 4GB USB drive.
That doesn’t work, and also it’s “sudo shutdown -s now” or “sudo poweroff” in bash.
If I do ctrl alt and f10 I get a load of what seems to me gibberish. But at the end, I get “x server died during startup” and some more gibberish. If you want the gibberish, just ask, but there’s a lot!! 
Lowons wrote:
> I am using SuSE 11.2 with KDE 4.3. I went to SuSE studio because I
> wanted to fit it on a 4GB USB drive.
ok…my thought was: do you get the same shutdown problem if you boot
directly from a Live CD…
if not, that means you are missing something in your squeezed down to
4GB USB that is not missed in the much smaller Live CD
anyway, if you just wanna impress your mom you do not need 4.7GB of
DVD, instead just use the Live KDE CD image, which is relatively
tiny…at least, that is my thought…and i figure it will shutdown
correctly…
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I have got the live cd version on a cheap cd. Works fine on both computers. I used the USB/harddisk image and that’s where I get the problem. I do want my mum to switch to Linux, but I also want to do some everyday jobs like surfing the net, checking email, writing abiword documents, etc. But I also want to save docs, that’s why I can’t use unetbootin to put it on my USB drve.
Do you need a live version? I presume a normal install (not a copy) of the installation KDE CD to a USB stick (instead to a internal hard disk) may work.
Or do you want your mother to be able to use openSUSE with and from the USB device on both computers?
Greetings
pistazienfresser
Lowons wrote:
> I have got the live cd version on a cheap cd. Works fine on both
> computers. I used the USB/harddisk image and that’s where I get the
> problem. I do want my mum to switch to Linux, but I also want to do some
> everyday jobs like surfing the net, checking email, writing abiword
> documents, etc. But I also want to save docs, that’s why I can’t use
> unetbootin to put it on my USB drve.
boot and run off the Live CD and use the full USB drive for documents,
maybe ??
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On 2010-07-06 15:36 GMT Lowons wrote:
>
> I have recently created a KDE 4 desktop using suse studio, it boots up
> fine on my machine, but doesn’t shutdown!! >:(
There is a suse-studio forum, they might know about that problem.
Otherwise, make sure to stop in verbose mode and see where it halts.
> On my mum’s laptop, which I will be using it most on, (it’s windoez)
> it won’t start KDE 4 at all!
That’s a completely different problem. I see on another post that you
mention “x server died during startup”, which means you have to look at
the x server logs.
> I can use the console, but I wanted to
> impress her with the amazing GUI and Compiz. And you can’t make
> presentations or browse the web in a console, can you?
Yes you can 
> And sudo poweroff and sudo shutdown -h now don’t work either! :’(
>
Halt?
As root in text mode.
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