Using the KDE 3.3.0 packages, the "logout" menu option and applet cause system to crash. System becomes unresponsive, to ctr-alt-bksp, ctr-alt-del, and any attempt to switch consoles. A telnet session can be used to gracefully killoff all kde processes and restart X. Problem occured immediately following upgrade to 3.3.0 on Sep 16th, 2004 as part of emerge --update --deep world. last emerge sync and --update --deep world ran on 22 Sep 04. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Use either KDE logout applet or menu option 2. 3. Actual Results: Screen goes black. Laptop battery power meter appears in upper left corner. System becomes unresponsive as in above details. Expected Results: Kicked user back to xdm login screen. Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.4.27) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.27 i686 Celeron (Coppermine) Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2 /share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown / usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qma il/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ccccom.com ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com http://gentoo.osuosl.org/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"
*** Bug 64998 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 64999 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
There's a lengthy discussion here about something similar: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88401
nothing we can do about this...