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syscon

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Registered: 2010-01-28

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[SOLVED] XFCE4 power off - blank screen

During Reboot or Power OFF, XFCE4 show blank screen.
Which setting control screen display, so it shows normal shut down process?

Joseph

etnlWings

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Registered: 2007-10-30

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Re: [SOLVED] XFCE4 power off - blank screen

Do you mean the system isn't shutting down, or it just isn't providing output as it's shutting down?

In the case of the latter, edit your menu.lst, or grub2 config (whatever that may be) and remove, "quiet", from the boot line. This will give you verbose output, as the system is booting and shutting down.

syscon

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Re: [SOLVED] XFCE4 power off - blank screen

The system is shutting down OK, I have a "verbose" output when the system is booting but not when it is shutting down.
I don't have any "quite" in grub.conf, here is my grub.conf:

...
# Kernel Current
title Kernel Current
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-current root=/dev/sda3  i915.modeset=0  acpi_enforce_resources=lax

Joseph

etnlWings

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Re: [SOLVED] XFCE4 power off - blank screen

I have no idea then. Perhaps, if you're using a graphical login manager, that might be causing the problem?

syscon

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Registered: 2010-01-28

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Re: [SOLVED] XFCE4 power off - blank screen

I have no idea then. Perhaps, if you're using a graphical login manager, that might be causing the problem?

SOLVED.
It appears the blank screen during shutdown is caused by login manager I'm using "slim"
Slim is no longer maintain but I wanted something light; went back to "xdm" ugly :-/ but it works.

Joseph

etnlWings

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Registered: 2007-10-30

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Re: [SOLVED] XFCE4 power off - blank screen

Wow, lucky guess.

Of course, now this means I'm statistically prone not to have anything good happen to me for months.