[kde-linux] Shutdown/Logout/Restart problems with KDE/Plasma5

[Kevin Krammer]

Hi,

On Wednesday, 2015-07-08, 18:02:59, Christian Butcher wrote:
> When I go to use the logout/shutdown/restart buttons in Plasma 5, the
> computer does not take the action requested.
> 
> A message in the style of
> 
>  Shutdown called with confirm  -1  type  2  and mode  -1
> 
> is appended to ~/.xsession-errors each second (approximately, I didn't time
> it).
> 
> qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer org.kde.KSMServerInterface.logout x y z
> 
> with x, y, z some integer (not just the values allowed) does the same, and
> the log reflects the values passed.

> Any ideas what I could look into to try and fix this?
> 
> Possibly related, although maybe not:
> InputActions doesn't run on startup, despite being selected. Several other
> startup services behave similarly. I found a text file that confirmed this,
> although I can't now find it again.
> 
> Some reports of similar issues suggested that the problem might lie in the
> ability to play .ogg sound files, such as
> /opt/kde/share/sounds/Oxygen-Sys-Log-Out.ogg. Although I did have some
> problems playing this (and other) sound file(s), I have since managed to
> fix that up by some combination of installing KMix, adding 'load-module
> module-device-manager' to the bottom of /etc/pulse/default.pa and adding
> the plasma-volume-control in Harold Sitter's scratch repository. Sound
> files (including the Log-Out.ogg) now play fine.

Since you have such a detailed analysis of the situation my suggestion would 
be to contact the Plasma developers on their mailinglist:
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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