Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.2)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          gcc 3.2 
OS:          Linux

Posting from: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21121

KDE 3.1.1a

The startkde script (/usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde) is supposed to process "shutdown
scripts" after KDE exit, but improperly parses the list of 'exe' paths returned
from kde-config, so only the first path in the list is processed as expected
(usually ~/.kde/shutdown/).

startkde includes the following code:

# Run scripts found in $KDEDIRS/shutdown
for prefix in `kde-config --path exe| sed -e 's^bin/^shutdown/^g;s^:^ ^'`
do
    # run each script...
done

The second substitution expression passed to sed (s^:^ ^) doesn't include the /g
modifier, so it replaces only the first path separator with the input field
separator, yielding:

/home/user/.kde/shutdown/ /usr/kde/3.1/shutdown/:/usr/shutdown/

Adding the /g modifier so that the argument to sed becomes
's^bin/^shutdown/^g;s^:^ ^g' fixes the problem.