Shutdown/Logout/Restart problems with KDE/Plasma5

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Christian Butcher <chrisb2244 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I originally send this to kde-linux, and was advised to post to
> plasma-devel.
>
> 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.
>
> In this case, at the time of the request, but only once, the
> ~/.xsession-errors shows also
>
> kf5.kinit.klauncher: appId= ":1.49" newAppId= ":1.49" pendingAppId=
> "*.polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1"
> kf5.kinit.klauncher: appName= "49"

And here is your problem. I'm going to guess that your session doesn't
restore and the system seems to take a long time to login as well.
To workaround as an immediate fix: killall -9 polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1

>
> I don't have systemd.
> ConsoleKit is build from a revision somewhere around 0.9.2 from the
> ConsoleKit2 github repository, and running ck-list-sessions returns two
> sessions, such as:
>
> Session3:
>        unix-user = '1000'
>        realname = 'Christian'
>        seat = 'Seat1'
>        session-type = ''
>        active = TRUE
>        x11-display = ':0'
>        x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
>        display-device = ''
>        remote-host-name = ''
>        is-local = TRUE
>        on-since = '2015-07-08T08:36:30.639138Z'
>        login-session-id = '6'
> Session2:
>        unix-user = '1000'
>        realname = 'Christian'
>        seat = 'Seat3'
>        session-type = ''
>        active = FALSE
>        x11-display = ':0'
>        x11-display-device = ''
>        display-device = ''
>        remote-host-name = ''
>        is-local = TRUE
>        on-since = '2015-07-08T08:36:28.901189Z'
>        login-session-id = '6'
>
> It can be seen that one is TRUE/TRUE, whilst the other is FALSE/TRUE, which
> seems reasonable. Playing with files in /etc/pam.d/{sddm,sddm-greeter} or
> /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsession can change these, but they tend to become
> more problematic/messy, rather than less.
>
>
> 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.
>
> Any advice appreciated,
> Chris

Regards,
Ben

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