[Nix-dev] Halting from kde, or exiting session

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Arie Middelkoop wrote:

> On 07-02-12 23:44, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 11:22:19PM +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
>>> since some recent update, the KDE we have does not halt anymore.
>>> Clicks to shutdown, reboot, exit, ... none work. They don't do anything
>>> beyond hiding back the menu.
>>>
>>> Any advice?
>>
>> rm ~/.kde/share/config/startupconfigfiles
>>
>> This worked. It had many store references.
> 
> I have a similar problem for a while. Shutdown, reboot or exit just
> gives a black screen for several seconds and then jumps back to KDM (via
> KDM I can shutdown or reboot my machine).
> 
> Your solution does not work for me. If my problem is related, perhaps I
> should just remove my entire .kde directory.
Or (untested)
$ find .kde -type f | xargs sed -e 's,/nix/store/[^/]*,/var/run/current-
system/sw,g' -i

P.S.: The proper solution would be to patch KDE to stop resolving symlinks.
-- 
Yury G. Kudryashov,
mailto: urkud at mccme.ru