** Description changed:
- Upgrading from the hardy-kde4-remix on an AMD64-based laptop (Alvio
- MS-103) resulted in a kdm log-in screen that refused to take any
- input (it didn't seem to recognize mouse or keyboard). It was
- however, possible to log-in after a "Control-Shift-Alt F4", or by
+ Upgrading from the hardy-kde4-remix on an AMD64-based laptop
+ (Alvio MS-103) resulted in a kdm log-in screen that refused to take
+ any input (it didn't seem to recognize mouse or keyboard). It was
+ however, possible to log-in after a "Control-Shift-Alt F4", or by
coming in over the ethernet port via ssh.
- Worse than this, the system no-longer shut-down cleanly. The
- command "/sbin/shutdown -h now" would exit X but leave linux
+ Perhaps worse than this, the system no-longer shut-down cleanly.
+ The command "/sbin/shutdown -h now" would exit X but leave linux
running. I needed to pull the battery to do a hard boot.
- After a lot of experimentation, I looked at what ?dm code I was
- trying to run:
+ After a lot of experimentation, I looked at what ?dm code I was trying
+ to run:
In /etc/rc3.d I found links for:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 doom doom 13 2008-12-13 06:21 S13kdm -> ../init.d/kdm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-04-18 00:11 S30gdm -> ../init.d/gdm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2008-04-09 23:39 S99kdm-kde4 ->
../init.d/kdm-kde4
I removed the symlink for kdm-kde4, and when that didn't fix the
problem, I removed the kdm package. Now I get a functional gdm
log-in screen.
- But: I still can't log-out cleanly. I was getting error messages for trying
to shut-down kdm
- when it wasn't running, so I used update-rc.d to remove all of the kdm
symlinks, but I find
- I still can't shutdown without pulling the battery.
+ But: I still can't log-out cleanly. I was getting error messages for
+ trying to shut-down kdm when it wasn't running, so I used
+ update-rc.d to remove all of the kdm symlinks, but I find I still
+ can't shutdown without pulling the battery.
+
+ Did some web searches and found a work-around: added "acpi=force" to the
kernel lines in grub's menu.lst (I also deleted the horrible "quiet splash"
options while I was at it). Now I can
+ shutdown cleanly.
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After intrepid upgrade, kdm won't take input; shutdown also fails
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/307710
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