Comment 3 for bug 665045

yes, as I've written I can reboot from the terminal, but the workaround is
not satisfactory, since in this way I loose the current session (which I
can't save even using dbus).

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Fabio Marconi
<email address hidden>wrote:

> Hello
> Have you tried to rebbot from terminal?
> sudo reboot
> Fabio
>
> --
> Logout, Restart and Shutdown actions not working in Kubuntu Lucid Lynx
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/665045
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>
> Status in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> This could seem similar to bug #250506, but I suspect it's actually
> different, since in that only shutdown and restart didn't work, and here
> instead it's impossible to logout.
>
> On Ubuntu (kubuntu) Lucid Lynx 10.04.1 LTS amd64 (installed from scratch,
> and kept updated), the "Logout", "Restart" and "Shudown" buttons from the
> "Leave" menu don't produce any visible effect. The confirmation dialog
> doesn't appear and the logout/reboot/shutdown doesn't happen. I've tried to
> disable notification sounds, disabling also the logout notification sound,
> and all possible combinations with no results. I've also tried to disable
> the confirmation dialog in the system preferences, but the system doesn't
> logout (or restart/shutdown).
> I've tried to use the shutdown applet from the task bar, but even that does
> nothing.
> Disabling/enabling compiz (with Alt+Shift+F12) doesn't change anything.
> (For a short period of time, after the installation, everything worked
> fine, then for no apparent reason the menu buttons stopped working.)
> The only way I can shutdown/restart is through the command line.
>
> I've tried without success to save the session before rebooting from the
> command line, using:
>
> $ dbus-send --dest=org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer
> org.kde.KSMServerInterface.saveCurrentSession
> $ sudo shutdown -r now
>
> but at the subsequent boot the ancient session from the last time "Restart"
> worked is restored.
> For the record, I'm using a hand-written /etc/X11/xorg.conf (since I'm
> using three monitors on two cards), but I don't think this can be related,
> since also the last times it worked I had the same setup.
> Please let me know if I can provide further details.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: kdelibs-bin 4:4.4.2-0ubuntu4
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.45-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic x86_64
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Fri Oct 22 12:08:30 2010
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/kdeinit4
> InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64
> (20100427)
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: kde4libs
> XsessionErrors:
> (process:1940): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion
> `initialization_value != 0' failed
> (npviewer.bin:3846): Gtk-WARNING **:
> /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libqtcurve.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
> (npviewer.bin:3846): Gtk-WARNING **:
> /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libqtcurve.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
> (npviewer.bin:4714): Gtk-WARNING **:
> /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libqtcurve.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
> (npviewer.bin:4714): Gtk-WARNING **:
> /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libqtcurve.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
>
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Marco Pantaleoni