Shutdown pauses when others are connected

[Homer]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Clay Weber <claydoh at claydoh.com> wrote:
> On Monday, March 07, 2011 04:36:48 PM Homer wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Clay Weber <claydoh at claydoh.com> wrote:
>> > On Monday, February 28, 2011 12:40:13 AM Michael Hirsch wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com>
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >> > On Friday, February 25, 2011, Homer wrote:
>> >> >> I'm the only user that will ever be on these machines.  Unless I'm no
>> >> >> longer employed here, then the next person will be the only user.  Do
>> >> >> you know how to disable this feature?
>> >> >
>> >> > Fine, then tell the developers that you need your own version of a
>> >> > single-user linux.   I think you are picking at nits.
>> >>
>> >> No, he's not.  When a user has a desired behavior to tell that that
>> >> they are wrong is counterproductive.  Just because Linux may be
>> >> potentially multiuser, doesn't mean it is for everyone.  My wife's
>> >> computer is single user, my kids computers are single user.  Even my
>> >> computer is single user, most of the time.
>> >>
>> >> When I tell my computer to shutdown (usually by hitting CTRL-ATL-DEL
>> >> in KDE then hitting return, that is what I expect it to do.  I don't
>> >> like coming back to it the next evening and discovering that it didn't
>> >> shut down because a) I had lagged in remotely from work, or b) I
>> >> logged in on a VC.
>> >>
>> >> Apparently some people would like the computer to stay on forever in
>> >> that circumstance.  That is fine with me.  But I know a fairly large
>> >> number of people who would like to set an option to have the machine
>> >> shut down when it is told to.
>> >>
>> >> This is a pretty common complaint, and I have yet to see an answer to
>> >> it.
>> >
>> > Haven't followed this one all the way, but has anyone looked at the
>> > options in /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc? There are a *lot* of well-commented
>> > options in there........
>>
>> I just scanned that file and nothing jumped out at me, though I won't
>> claim 100% understanding of all the settings.  The shutdown section
>> only has these three:
>>
>> [Shutdown]
>> BootManager=None
>> HaltCmd=/sbin/halt
>> RebootCmd=/sbin/reboot
>>
>> On further consideration...  I see both halt and reboot have a --force
>> option.  I'll try -f when I get some time and report back.
>
> look at this section:
> # The default choice for the shutdown condition/timing.
> # "Schedule" - shut down after all active sessions exit (possibly at once)
> # "TryNow" - shut down, if no active sessions are open; otherwise, do nothing
> # "ForceNow" - shut down unconditionally
> # Default is Schedule
> #DefaultSdMode=ForceNow
>
> try uncommenting the last line above, I think that is the option you need

Thanks for that suggestion, unfortunately it didn't work for me.  The
section you posted is not in my kdmrc file (I'm running 10.04).  I
added it with the ForceNow option uncommented, but I get the same
behavior.

The -f (see my prior post above) did not work either.