KDE won't shut down
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kdebase (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: kdebase
I'm running a release version of Kubuntu 9.10; all updates as of 2009-10-30, on an HP Pavilion dv3-2150us.
Observed behavior: When I go to the KDE menu and select shutdown (or use the shutdown/lock widget to shut down), I get a dialog whose options do nothing. No matter what I click on, I am returned to the desktop with no changes. Further attempts to click on the shutdown button do nothing at all; there is no dialog.
I have to shut down my system with `sudo shutdown now' or similar.
This is identical to a supposedly closed bug that pinned the problem on knotify waiting to play the logout sound and being unable to.
Before I tried a clean install of Kubuntu 9.10, I was running Kubuntu 9.10RC, and when this happened, turning off the shutdown sound in System Settings-
Expected behavior: KDE logs out/shuts down.
Question: sox (`play') and pidgin have sound; play skips with alsa underruns every so often and pidgin only has sound when its server is set to `automatic' or `esd'. KDE apps like Amarok and KDE notifications (but curiously not dragon-player) themselves are silent. Is this inability to shut down linked to my inability to play sounds in KDE?
I can confirm the workaround: disable the logout noise in notifications.