Desktop Hangs And Does Not Shut Down Properly

tb wrote:

What can a Linux newbie like me do to solve this problem?

rename .kde4 to .kde4-backup and try again.

houghi
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On 2012-06-30 19:49, tb wrote:

As I said in the subject line, the desktop no longer shuts down
properly. This started about a week ago when an update that had
something to do with the kernel got installed. I am not exactly sure
what the update was about, but I remember it had something to do with
the kernel.

uname -r shows this kernel 3.1.10-1.13-desktop to be installed.

Anyhow, every time that I click on the Shut Down icon, the desktop
starts the shutdown process but then hangs at the green KDE screen that
shows a lizard. My only recourse is to press the power button on the
desktop case and shut down that way.

What can a Linux newbie like me do to solve this problem?

Downgrade the kernel to 3.1.10-1.9-desktop - there was apparently
something wrong with 1.13 as it seems to be removed from
the repos and not available as an update any more.

mrg

On Saturday, June 30, 2012 7:49:32 PM UTC+2, tb wrote:

I am using openSUSE 12.1, 64-bit, with KDE 4.7.2.
My motherboard is MSI Eclipse X58.
My graphics card is Radeon HD 4850.

As I said in the subject line, the desktop no longer shuts down
properly. This started about a week ago when an update that had
something to do with the kernel got installed. I am not exactly sure
what the update was about, but I remember it had something to do with
the kernel.

uname -r shows this kernel 3.1.10-1.13-desktop to be installed.

Anyhow, every time that I click on the Shut Down icon, the desktop
starts the shutdown process but then hangs at the green KDE screen that
shows a lizard. My only recourse is to press the power button on the
desktop case and shut down that way.

What can a Linux newbie like me do to solve this problem?

Thanks.
tb

I saw something about this problem in the German language equivalent of this group a few days ago. Does https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?idv4864 describe the what you are seeing?

On 06/30/2012 03:38 PM, marrgol wrote:

Downgrade the kernel to 3.1.10-1.9-desktop - there was apparently
something wrong with 1.13 as it seems to be removed from
the repos and not available as an update any more.

How do I do that?
tb

tb wrote:

On 06/30/2012 03:38 PM, marrgol wrote:

Downgrade the kernel to 3.1.10-1.9-desktop - there was apparently
something wrong with 1.13 as it seems to be removed from
the repos and not available as an update any more.

How do I do that?

In YaST, software, Software Management, search for the kernel. Could be
kernel-default or kernel-desktop or some other name.

Then at the bottom, you selectVersions and select the one you want.

there is a way to avoid this kind of behaviour with a non-working
kernel: multiversion
http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/02...ur-system/

I have the lines in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf
multiversion = provides:multiversion(kernel)
multiversion.kernels = oldest,oldest+1,running,latest-1,latest

That way you will always have a previous version(s) of the kernel and it
is easy to go back to it, by booting from it.

houghi
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