Shutdown Problem

[FarSight Data Systems]

On Monday, January 30, 2012 06:39:46 AM Paul Kaplan wrote:
> Does the system shutdown correctly if you issue sudo shutdown -h now from
> the command line? If so it's clearly a kde problem. Maybe try reinstalling
> kde? Paul
> 

One of my clients is having the same problem, but with Ubuntu 11.10, not 
Kubuntu.  I think it's not the desktop that's the problem, but the OS itself.  
I'm interested in determining the problem myself.

Mark

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Stear" <linux at appjaws.plus.com>
> To: "Kubuntu user technical support" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 6:11:38 AM
> Subject: Re: Shutdown Problem
> 
> On Sunday 29 Jan 2012 16:43:00 Mark Greenwood wrote:
> > On 29 Jan 2012, at 16:32, Paul Stear wrote:
> > > On Sunday 29 Jan 2012 16:24:53 Mark Greenwood wrote:
> > >> On 29 Jan 2012, at 16:21, Paul Stear wrote:
> > >>> Hi all,
> > >>> Since updating to kde 4.7.4 the shut-down procedure appears to
> > >>> complete
> > >>> but doesn’t actually turn off the machine, I am left with the
> > >>> shut-down
> > >>> progress dots and have to press the main computer off button to turn
> > >>> off the machine.
> > >>> 
> > >>> Any ideas how to fix this?
> > >> 
> > >> How patient have you been? Mine sometimes takes several minutes now
> > >> but it does shut down in the end. It's annoying but I haven't spent
> > >> much time looking into it yet.
> > > 
> > > I have left it for 30 mins and still it will not shut down.
> > 
> > You've obviously got some process that doesn't want to quit. Try making
> > sure you quit all desktop applications before shutting down. If that
> > doesn't help then perhaps disabling some KDE services will. Also I've
> > sometimes seen it do this when you have external discs or network
> > volumes mounted.
> 
> I have tried the above but it made no difference.
> I can't find any error in logs or indeed what controls kubuntu to shutdown.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what the kubuntu procedure
> is for shutting down.
> thanks
> Paul

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