I've got just about the same problem. Here is more detailed
information. Unfortunately, I do not know of any logs or other files to
look at for more information. If someone knows what I should
investigate further, the information would be appreciated.
Times it Works Correctly
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* Any time I DON'T have the full desktop pager open, it works fine,
regardless of the 'restore session' option.
* When no session information was previously stored, and I logoff
without checking the 'restore session' checkbox, I logoff successfully
first try.
However, the rest of the time, my experiences are similar to Ben's:
Times it Doesn't Work
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On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 15:09, Ben Reser wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 06:19:10PM +1000, Ron Stodden wrote:
> > KDE logoff problems.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Whenever I logoff, only the Desktop Pager is removed.
ditto. and not the desktop pager applet embedded into kicker, but only
the full desktop pager you get from pressing the pull down arrow on the
kicker one.
> >
> > If I then logoff again, usually KDE goes down as it should.
I get this behavior about 50% of the time, when the 'restore session'
option is on (the rest I have to kill X as below). If I turn it off, I
can consistently logoff on the second try.
> >
> > But not always. In this case no amount of logoffs changes the
> > situation, and Ctrl+Alt+Backspace does not just kill the X server back
> > to a command prompt, but takes the whole system down to a unreqested reboot.
> >
When this occurs, my kicker locks up, so I cannot even select the menus
on it any longer. I am still able to interact with applications.
After killing X, if I had selected 'Reboot' in the logoff optoins, the
system reboots. Otherwise, X tries to start up once, fails, tries
again, and succeeds (nvidia drivers on geforce 4 ti 4200). When I login
again, my ethernet interface is down. I have to manually restore it
with ifup.
> > ...
> >
> > Further, with these 6 desktops applications present at logoff are not
> > restored to the correct desktop after a boot or reboot. They all
> > usually appear on top of each other on Desktop 1.
So far, mine seem to always restore correctly. I am only using 4
desktops.
>
> So report it to bugs.kde.org
> I seriously doubt this is a packaging problem with Mandrake's KDE.
I don't recall this being a problem with MDK 9 RC2, but I have no way of
checking, since I use final now.
Can anyone else verify this? Can anyone verify it happening on a
non-MDK box??
-Mark Piper
