lenny gnome shutdown problem

[iwanabeguru]

Hi all.

I just upgraded my debian etch installation to lenny and i expereinced some problem.
First.
I cannot shutdown or reboot my computer from gnome. When i select the shutdown option the little windows appears but if i click on shutdown or reboot its freeze. I have to use fore quit to close the unresponding window and the gnome reloading like when i loggin in. If i chose logout and click on logut a i get the same result. I waited for the timer but when it reach "1" the windows freeze again.

2.
Problem with azureus. When i want to add a new torrent the gui die and i have to kill azureus from terminal.

Any help would be appreciated.

iwanabeguru

[jledhead]

this sounds kind of familiar to a problem I had with an Ubuntu machine. I had disabled some startup items and I disabled the Power Management since I thought a desktop should just be on. after I re-enabled that and restarted it went away.

just to be sure, when the log out, shutdown screen comes up your computer is froze, but you can do ctrl-alt-F1 and get a cmd prompt and everything is working fine?

If thats your problem then try the above. If that doesn't work I will try to dig around and make sure I didn't do anything else to fix it.

[iwanabeguru]

Hi

Thank you for the answer.

Just the gnome freeze but not totally , i can click and as i wrote it recognize that the shutdown panel have frozen and offer a force quit option , and yes i can switch to a terminal with ctrl+alt+F[1-6].

Can you give me an advice which services should i disable?

Disable power managment. Do you men acpi or some graphical control tool?

[jledhead]

it was the power management daemon, gnome-power-manager

[markharding557]

try reinstall gdm also you can shut down by inputing halt in a root terminal

[arielby]

I also recently updated into lenny (had to print something in my HP PSC 720 (and download HPLIP), but there a broken dep. tree in 1 of the Dependencies).

Even if i got some "dpkg returned an error code of 1" problems (usually because he tried to unpack 1 lib before unpacking dependencies), i managed to upgrade.

Lenny working fine, except for 1 problem in switch user: after i log in, he shows the dialog he shows when i return from screensaver, and i have to enter my password again (however, he does not switch to password enter again, so i enter my password 2 times and it works)