Bugzilla – Bug 693419
kdm shutdown delay
Last modified: 2011-11-12 14:59:46 UTC
I'm using KDM and sometimes trying to shut down from there. Since openSUSE 11.4 if I click Menu at the bottom and choose Shutdown it takes around 20! seconds until the popup appears which let me choose the exact shutdown method (restart, shutdown etc). I found one kdm message in /var/log/messages but not sure if it is related: May 12 17:35:33 Hygiea kdm[1370]: Cannot execute 'grub-set-default': not in $PATH.
Not even a single request for certain information? The issue is _very_ annoying.
Sorry for not responding earlier. I can reproduce the bug and yes, it is related to the error message. Adding the workaround from bug 695299 makes it fast again.
*** Bug 695299 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
From bug 695299: grub-set-default is outdated. Workaround: add as root ln -sf grubonce /usr/sbin/grub-set-default
I need to do a few more tests but I linked the binary and still had the same issue at last shutdown. So I'm not sure this is duplicate.
With 12.1 I do not see the messages for grub-set-default any longer in /var log/messages. This was probably fixed by coolo. From kdebase4-workspace package * Fr Okt 21 2011 coolo@suse.com - kdm: don't even look for grub-set-default, we won't need it However the delay when pressing the button still exists. However there is a newer report with all relevant information including a link to a fix for KDE 4.8. So I close this report as a dup of the newer one. So it seems you were right and this was not really a duplicate but some strange incident that it worked for me. If you still see warnings about grub-set-default in /var/log/messages with 12.1 I would be great if you could open a new bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 729823 ***