crash on shutdown from kde

[Kaj Haulrich]

On Friday 11 May 2007 19:05:48 jonas wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I'm using feisty and whenever i try to shutdown from within kde
> the system hangs (switching to console is not possible, numpad
> key is not working). I had a similar behaviour with edgy but I
> had a workaround back then. I used to logout from kde to kdm and
> shutdown from kdm. This does not work anymore because a logout
> results in a black screen now. But i can switch to console so
> it's not a complete crash like the one i have with shutdown.
>
> Anyone has an idea how I could track down the reason for the bug?
>
> It's somehow related to the ati driver, since it looks like its
> working with the fglrx driver. But I would like to avoid using
> the closed source driver.

Same problem here.  I think it's bug no. 38915 :

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/38915

A workaround is to kill X with <Ctrl><Alt><Backspace>, eventually by 
using the "Elephant Sequence".

Kaj Haulrich.
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