Bug 203358

Summary:	Unable to logout/shutdown/reboot from KDE
Product:	[Unmaintained] ksmserver	Reporter:	Wesley <kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Lubos Lunak <l.lunak>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	greg, shaddowy2
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Wesley 2009-08-10 21:59:36 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/410466

I am unable to logout/reboot/shutdown my machine from KDE. I get the logout options, and I can confirm the action and then nothing happens. I stay logged in until I reboot/shutdown or restart kdm via the terminal.

Linux eniac 2.6.31-5-generic #24-Ubuntu SMP Sat Aug 1 12:48:18 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic

kubuntu-desktop:
  Installed: 1.137
  Candidate: 1.137
  Version table:
 *** 1.137 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
kwin:
  Installed: 4:4.3.0-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 4:4.3.0-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 4:4.3.0-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
kdm:
  Installed: 4:4.3.0-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 4:4.3.0-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 4:4.3.0-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Comment 1 Greg Lepore 2009-08-11 16:32:56 UTC

Confirming this on Kubuntu Jaunty with KDE 4.3 installed from PPA.  The first attempt to logout gets the confirm dialog; subsequent attempts do not get the confirm dialog.  There appears to be no way to troubleshoot this bug.  Shutting down from the command line works normally.  Attempting a shutdown with OpenOffice open with an unsaved file prompted me to save the file, whereupon it saved the file and closed OpenOffice, but the machine did not shutdown, nor did Firefox (which was also open) close.

Comment 2 shaddowy2 2009-08-12 12:38:08 UTC

I can confirm that bug, too. I have installed KDE 4.3 from PPA parallel to Gnome at my ubuntu system. At the login screen I set KDE to be the default session to be started.
Neither logout nor shutdown/reboot works for me as described by Wesley and Greg. A first attempt brings up the confirm dialog, further tries don't. 
I manually do shutdown for now by 'sudo shutdown -h now' from the command line.

Kernel: 2.6.28-14-generic
If further information about my system are required, i would like to provide them, but how? By filling in a new bug report?

Comment 3 Lubos Lunak 2009-08-12 13:30:04 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 201569 ***