Hey everyone,

I'm having troubles with my power button (Slack 13, KDE, fresh installation.)

Currently 2 things happen:
1) KDE presents an "End Session" dialog.
2) Shortly after the dialog is presented, the computer jumps to runlevel 6 and shuts down.

I checked to see if it was perhaps acpid which was causing this, however there are no scripts that would cause this behavior (just the default 'no-action' script.)

Perhaps HAL is recognizing the event and initiating a shutdown? Preferably I would be given a menu of choices.. which does happen, but the shutdown sequence is inevitable.

Any ideas? Thanks,

Coto

Are you in run level 4? I don't know whether the two actions are related, but I reported in another thread that when in run level 4, and I select the logoff option from the KDE kickoff menu, my box shuts down just as you described, rather than logging off and returning to the login manager.

I start in run level 3. However does startx change it to 4?

The startx script does not change the system to run level 4. The startx script only starts X from within run level 3.

One way to start the system in run level 4 is to edit /etc/inittab. My preferred method is to add both init options as menu options in my boot loader with one of the two the default.

Regarding the End Session dialog box, you can eliminate that if you want. Start System Settings, select the Advanced tab, then select the Session Manager option. Disable/uncheck the 'Confirm logout' check box.

The same thing happens here but i don't see it as a problem as i only press it to turn the pc off and that is not very often.

I think he wants to stop the shutdown and not the Confirm logout.

That's ideally what I'd like. Personally I prefer starting from the console, so even if run level 4 is a work around, it's something I'd like to avoid. I'll give it a try to see what happens.

So no action is defined for the power button in /etc/acpi/acpi_handler.sh ?