Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 358141
kpowersave crash and logout problems
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:12:20 EST
kpowersave is not stable in current pre-F8 rawhide. It seems to crash randomly and, in turn, cause logout problems. That is, logout clicks are just ignored and cause no visible action. The only way to stop session is to kill it with Ctrl-Alt-Bksp. In other words, these logout problems seem to coinside with sudden disappearance of kpowersave from KDE panel - not that logout causes crash, rather crash causes logout problems. kpowersave-0.7.3-0.2svn20070828.fc8 hal-0.5.10-1.fc8 kernel-2.6.23.1-37.fc8 How can i try new official kpowersave-0.7.3?
fwiw, kpowersave worksforme (dell latitude d620)
I tried kpowersave-0.7.3 (final). Same type of problems persists on Dell Vostro 1500. It seems though that the problem in the final version is more isolated and less random. kpowersave just refuses to start after some reboots, sometimes after reboots from Windows. After such failures, it is impossible to logout gracefully. It all looks like the problem may be in bios or acpi. What is unfortunate is that kpowersave doesn't leave a trace after a crash or logs its failures. I would appreciate, if someone taught me how to monitor kpowersave launches and crashes. So, I see problems on Dell Vostro 1500 A01. I wish I could provide more details at this point.
*** Bug 363211 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hello, I've dell latitude D830 kpowersave-0.7.3-0.2svn20070828.fc8 and "sometimes" log out won't work. Sometimes I see on log out window with KDE crash (for some application) and than normal shutdown. If you need some strace, log whatever let me know. marcela
Yes, please, any additional information to help diagnose would be valuable. If possible too, would one of the affected parties submit this upstream to bugs.kde.org as well?
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1824718&group_id=124576&atid=700009 KDE folks don't like kpowersave bugs, because it is not a part of kde releases or development. So the bug is filed on sourceforge.net.
This is crazy. I am now pretty certain that nm-applet has a role in this failures. I have kpowersave disabled for now, yet my *occasional* logout problem reappeared. On log in, I again saw a bouncing "K" for a very long time (30 seconds). After it stopped I tried and couldn't log out. In "ps -e" I saw nm-applet, and I decided - what the hell, let's kill it. Voila, the screen has deemed and the logout window appeared. So it was nm-applet that blocked my logout. Now, I tend to think that final kpowersave-0.7.3 would actually be a worthy update as soon as F8 is out. It did seem to me to work better and never crashed in the middle of the session, which cvs snapshot frequently did. As for nm-applet, seem to have problems with kdm or something. I hope it will be resolved in a due course ;) I will disable nm-applet for now and re-enable kpowersave-0.7.3 final.
kpowersave-0.7.3 from koji works fine so far. So this bug will probably be closed soon. Just be aware that some of logout problems are caused by nm-applet weirdness, see bug 367711.
kpowersave-0.7.3-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kpowersave'
I have just applied the f8 updates. kpowersave is not installed: [root@potoroo ~]# rpm -qa '*power*' gnome-power-manager-2.20.0-6.fc8 [root@potoroo ~]# I can't logout from a VNC session, I wish to reboot following the update. I killed nm-applet, and the logout immediately proceeded. Note that _my_ original report was 363211
kpowersave-0.7.3-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.