On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:44:35 +0100, Peter Baranyi wrote:

> I can only shut down my pc from a root terminal with 'poweroff' (or
> shutdown) but not from graphical environments.
> 
> From Gnome2, sometimes it shuts down, sometimes I get back to gdm. From
> gdm, the shutdown action sometimes works, sometimes it just quits gdm.

GNOME2? What Debian flavour are you running?
 
> In KDE 4.7.4, shutdown in the application launcher menu does nothing, or
> dims the screen.
> 
> How do I fix this? I do not see any error messages.

If it used to work, I would report it.

> Debian unstable, 3.1.0-1-686-pae

Unstable and GNOME2? :-?

Anyway, that kernel is old. Try to update it (now 3.2.10).

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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