[KNR] No logout/reboot/shutdown possible from logout-prompt or K-menue

Bug #414715 reported by Sokraates
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Bug Description

Using Kubuntu Netbook remix on an AAO 110. All updates as of 16.08.2009.

Logout, reboot or shutdown does not work from K-menue or the logout-promt (which I get e.g. after pressing the power button). Selecting an option on the prompt will make the prompt disappear and the last displayed app/desktop reappear, however nothing else happens. I see that the SSD is accesses after selecting an option, however I don't know how to further triage this to see what happens.

Reboot and shutdown work from the console and from KDM before login (after login I can't return to KDM).

I've experienced this bug with kernels 2.6.31-5 and 2.6.31-6.

I have not had similar problems on this machine running Jaunty UNR and KDE 4.3 (from backports).

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Sokraates (sokraates) wrote :

After I have found out how to logout using Konsole, I tried to logout but failed. Here's the relevant in- and output:

sokraates@Red:~$ dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer org.kde.KSMServerInterface.logout
Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such method 'logout' in interface 'org.kde.KSMServerInterface' at object path '/KSMServer' (signature '')
sokraates@Red:~$ qdbus --print-reply org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer org.kde.KSMServerInterface.shutdown
Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod
No such method 'shutdown' in interface 'org.kde.KSMServerInterface' at object path '/KSMServer' (signature '')

I tried both commands since I found them on the internet and know next to nothing about dbus, so I wanted to make sure that I don't use a deprecated command. However the error output is almost identical.

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Murz (murznn) wrote :

I think this bug is duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/410466
Did you try to remove the ~/.kde/share/config/knotifyrc file?
If it helps, please mark this bug as duplicate of #410466

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Sokraates (sokraates) wrote :

Thanks, Murz. Stupid of me to have overlooked that bug when reporting mine.

Removing the file didn't help, however enabling sound notifications in SystemSettings (as proposed in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201569) did.

So basically anyone using the default Kubuntu settings should not be affected by this bug.

On a bright note, comment #23 of the above bug contains a patch which would not only fix this issue but also improve login and logout by 6 seconds. Neat. :)

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