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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jk74pu$6c2$6...@dough.gmane.org