[kde] [Bug 353746] New: Cannot restart or shut down from KDE5

[Jonathan Kaye]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353746

            Bug ID: 353746
           Summary: Cannot restart or shut down from KDE5
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Debian testing
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: jdkaye10 at gmail.com

'm running Debian Testing (Stretch) with a KDE desktop. I have plasma-workspace
4:5.4.1-1 and sddm 0.12.0-4 installed. My problem is that I cannot restart or
shutdown from KDE in a normal way: going to the "Leave" menu from the
Application launcher and selecting either Restart or Shut down from the System
section of Leave.

Click on either one takes me to the SDDM login screen. If I try to restart or
shut down from there I get a counter which counts down to 0 and then goes into
negative numbers and would continue forever unless I cancel the operation.

I have two ways to shut down or restart KDE (besides simply turning off the
computer:
a. I can log into Gnome Flashback Metacity from the login window and either
restart or shut down from there. Interestingly, I get a dialogue box to enter
the root password. I cannot do this with my normal user privileges as I did in
the past.
b. I can Ctl-Alt-F1 to a tty, log in as root and give either the reboot or halt
command.

So the problem seems to be that KDE now requires root privileges to either
restart or shut down but does not provide the means to get these privileges.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Restart KDE as described above.
2. Click on either Restart or Shut down from the Leave menu.
3.

Actual Results:  
This takes me to the Login page. Clicking on the Restart or Shut Down symbols
counts down to 0 seconds and then goes into negative numbers.

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