Kubuntu 13.04 unable to shutdown/reboot/logout from KDE

[Nina]

Hi everybody

when trying to shutdown/reboot/logout from KDE via Menu or rightclick on Desktop nothing happens and therefore I can not shutdown/reboot/logout from KDE. Shutdown in konsole with "sudo shutdown -h now" works perfect, also suspend works.

The problem occured first in Kubuntu 12.04 (LTS). After reading [1], I upgraded to 12.10 and 13.04, but the problem persisted.

In Addition in all versions (12.04, 12.10 and 13.04) I have problem updating my system with "Apper", as it does not ask for further permissions and therefore fails. I suspect, that something is wrong with the permission and/or polkit.

I tried to shutdown from the console as explained here [2] to get further details, but all I get is:

nina@caladan:~$ dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer org.kde.KSMServerInterface.logout int32:0 int32:2 int32:2
method return sender=:1.18 -> dest=:1.205 reply_serial=2

Attached you find the /var/log/kdm.log

Thanks for any help.

[1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-workspace/+bug/1000690
[2]: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Herunterfahren#KDE

[Nina (cheetahn)]

I attached you also the .xsession-error

[Nina (cheetahn)]

and here is also Xorg.0.log

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Please do the following:
- run kdebugdialog (via alt-f2 or a konsole or the menu search...)
- enable all and apply the changes
- log out and back in again

now run the following in konsole; once done you should find a file called shutdown.log in your home directory, please attach it to this bug report.

_lf=~/shutdown.log
rm -f $_lf
ps -A >> $_lf
echo "------------------" >> $_lf
echo "kreadconfig --file ksmserverrc --group General --key offerShutdown --default true --type boolean" >> $_lf
kreadconfig --file ksmserverrc --group General --key offerShutdown --default true --type boolean &>> $_lf
echo "qdbus --system org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.CanStop" >> $_lf
qdbus --system org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.CanStop &>> $_lf
echo "qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer org.kde.KSMServerInterface.canShutdown" >> $_lf
qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer org.kde.KSMServerInterface.canShutdown &>> $_lf
echo "qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer org.kde.KSMServerInterface.logout 0 2 2" >> $_lf
qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer org.kde.KSMServerInterface.logout 0 2 2 &>> $_lf
echo "------------" >> $_lf
cat ~/.xsession-errors &> $_lf

[Nina (cheetahn)]

I'm sorry, that I did not write earlier. Since 2 days shutdown/reboot/logout
works again. I can not tell why and I did not do anything specific to solve
the problem.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Even better, perhaps an update of some foundation package resolved the situation then.

In case it should re-appear simply follow comment #5 and reopen the bug.

Thanks.

[Martin Scherer (marscher)]

This bug also affects me. If logoff or shutdown is chosen from menu a dialog with a 5sec countdown appears with options to (lock, shutdown, hibernate) and hibernate is default, if nothing is chosen in time. Hibernate buttons works as expected.