bcooksley wrote:Given that the X server managed to come online, I'd say you are safe if you have "Direct Rendering" available. This command will tell you if it is available.

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glxinfo | grep -i direct

The reason behind your default background / no widgets / blank desktop is likely that Plasma failed to save its configuration. The safest course of action is usually running these commands:

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kquitapp plasma
rm -rf $KDEHOME/share/config/plasm*
plasma &

I don't know if that would have loaded the saved settings or not, as I had already switched back to folder view and added my widget. You were right, though, that it didn't save the plasma configuration!

Well, after all of that, I'm still having the same issue with shutting down.. I do want to thank you, though, for helping me through this! You are incredibly reliable and helpful! I like you so much, I don't even care if the problem gets fixed! I'm thinking about trying out openSUSE again..

I do recall having the crash when trying to logout / shutdown at some point when using KDE 4.2 Betas, but it resolved itself for me at some point. The only thing I can recommend is ensuring the "Logout / Shutdown" Desktop Effect is disabled if you have Desktop Effects enabled.

Just an update on this topic: this probably doesn't always happen, but just this morning I noticed that the shutdown hung at the Kubuntu logo, right as the loading bar was almost empty. Subsequent pushes of the power button did nothing. I Ctrl+Alt+Del'd and it restarted the loading bar, which unloaded to completion, at which point my computer restarted, even though I had done "sudo shutdown now". Also, the next time I turned the PC on, KDE auto-logged in, started loading, then suddenly flashed to the login screen, where I had to re-login.