Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.7.4) OS: Linux On meego PA2 (basyskom-plasma-active-two-meego) I cannot shut down. Tapping shutdown in the shutdown menu does nothing, neither does entering shutdown in the launcher search field and tapping the icon found. Entering "shutdown" in Konsole gives "command not found" Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: Try any of the above steps Actual Results: Nothing happens, or "command not found" respectively Expected Results: System shuts down
Shutdown works here even though the shutdown command is not installed. The first two methods you tried do the same thing to shutdown the computer, it is no surprise both have the same final effect. This can be a duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228005
Can you check if phonon (sound) is working properly in your device? Ksmserver should play a sound when closing the KDE session. Is only shutdown that is not working or sleep too? Please test if the command below work: qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer logout 0 2 0
Finally I was able to reproduce this bug and it is indeed a duplicate of #228005. It happens all the time when I run PA 2 on VirtualBox. Strangely enough it does not happen if I use startkde instead of startactive.
Patch pushed: http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/ad188bfdb06af50448acbbde00556ebc3d29f418 Closing this bug. Re-open if it happens again.
Yes, this seems to have done the trick, thanks! Has it been backported to PA2 already? If not, it should be, because being unable to shut down is rather nasty.