Hi!

I’m unable to reboot or poweroff my machine from kde menus.

I tried it 3 diferent ways:

1st - KDE menu => Leave => Restart;
2nd - Desktop => Leave => Restart Computer;
3rd - Ctrl + Alt + Del => Restart Computer.

None works.

It returns a black screen with a white cursor, a small trace, blinking in the upper left corner.

I already added the line TerminateServer=true in the file /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc under the section [X-*-Core].

Anyone knows how to fix this?

P.S.: I'm running slackware64 current and KDE 4.13.3.

I hate that when kde hangs. It really has pissed me off even when the user is power group. I get fed up with it. I found skype not wanting to close would cause an issue. last time that happened just like you in 64-14-1 which is very often like you. I press alt F2 create another tty and it opens another terminal and I login as root and do a shut down. I have seen complaints in here and as usual everyone has a bunch of ways to find the problem. Of what program is making it hang.

when actually it has to be Kde not killing a program. I do not have this problem with logging in from startx from runlevel three. I can repeat
it often with the root login then type kdm. It is hit and miss with a startup with runlevel 4.
What I do know is there is a gui program not shutting down leaving xorg hanging.
the Hang time is so long when logging out to go to KDM log in screen I just hit control alt back and log to the other user.

This is obviously a policykit problem because this does not happen when logging out of root.

Well hopefully Pat will read this and dabble with it.
PS
Remember the user must be in power group to shut down or restart.

Drakeo,

The user is in power group.

well like I said above your not the only one with this problem. I have. edited my /etc/initab to runlevel 4 for my everyday use machine.
and when it goes to hang I do a control alt back. please make sure your system is up to date.

edit your /etc/slackpkg mirrors and un-comment a mirror for your slackware version and then run slackpkg update. then slackpkg install-new and slackpkg upgrade-all.

remember Pat had some fixes that was added. Like you I get pissed when kwin hangs. have you tried disabling kwin 3d loging out then logging back in.
then doing a restart. and since your running alien bobs KDE you would do better posting.
http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/
I also have that issue in 64-current multi-lib on 14.13.3
reporting it at the blog simplifies things. That is on a unstable system that is ever changing.

Again if you look at the readme the polkit has changed http://alien.slackbook.org/ktown/current/latest/README

Drakeo,

My system is up to date.
I'm not using kwin 3d but compiz with emerald.
I also posted in http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/new-kde-4-13-3.
The packages polkit-kde-agent-1 and polkit-kde-kcmodules-1 are installed.

Thank you for your interest

well that's the fun of running current trying to figure it out. as like you i hit the snag also lol.
What really makes it hard is when your not running stock current. I am not saying that is bad. I am saying it makes it little more work.
but somthing is holding up your xorg . you should check your /var/log/xorg.log

Drakeo,

I see no error message in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

It's a xorg issue.
I found out that if I downgrade xorg-server from 1.15.2 to 1.14.3 I can reboot/poweroff from KDE menus.
I'm not interested in downgrade xorg. I'm still looking for other solution which won't obligate me to downgrade any package.