Mageia forum

I had a situation occur where I could not logout of KDE.

Everything else seemed to be working but clicking on the logout entry in the menu did nothing.

I had to Kill the X server, the screen went blank for a few seconds and then the login screen came up.

It hasn't happened again but I stopped using KDE for the most part and switched to icewm for my desktop.

Please have a look at viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10391 as it is a similar topic.
And please provide the output of the following commands, as normal user:

Code: Select all

rpm -qa systemd polkit
ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep -iE "polkit|policykit"
loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID
pkexec whoami        (you need to enter the root password in the authentication dialog that pops up)
qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer

and as root the output of

Code: Select all

systemctl status polkit.service -a


You can try logout as normal user via

Code: Select all

qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer logout 0 2 0

and please also post the result for that.

Result of commands

Code: Select all

$ rpm -qa systemd polkit
polkit-0.113-1.1.mga5
systemd-217-11.1.mga5

$ ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep -iE "polkit|policykit"
polkitd   3703     1  0 22:56 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug
bhr       3779     1  0 22:56 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1

$ loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID
Id=c1
Name=bhr
Timestamp=Sun 2015-11-08 22:56:31 EST
TimestampMonotonic=298801361
VTNr=1
Display=:0
Remote=no
Service=kdm
Scope=session-c1.scope
Leader=2353
Audit=0
Type=x11
Class=user
Active=yes
State=active
IdleHint=no
IdleSinceHint=0
IdleSinceHintMonotonic=0

$ pkexec whoami
root

$ qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer
method bool org.kde.KSMServerInterface.canShutdown()
method QString org.kde.KSMServerInterface.currentSession()
method void org.kde.KSMServerInterface.logout(int, int, int)
method void org.kde.KSMServerInterface.restoreSubSession(QString)
method void org.kde.KSMServerInterface.resumeStartup(QString)
method void org.kde.KSMServerInterface.saveCurrentSession()
method void org.kde.KSMServerInterface.saveCurrentSessionAs(QString)
method void org.kde.KSMServerInterface.saveSubSession(QString, QStringList, QStringList)
method QStringList org.kde.KSMServerInterface.sessionList()
signal void org.kde.KSMServerInterface.subSessionCloseCanceled()
signal void org.kde.KSMServerInterface.subSessionClosed()
signal void org.kde.KSMServerInterface.subSessionOpened()
method void org.kde.KSMServerInterface.suspendStartup(QString)
method void org.kde.KSMServerInterface.wmChanged()
method QDBusVariant org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get(QString interface_name, QString property_name)
method QVariantMap org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.GetAll(QString interface_name)
method void org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set(QString interface_name, QString property_name, QDBusVariant value)
method QString org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable.Introspect()
method QString org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer.GetMachineId()
method void org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer.Ping()

# systemctl status polkit.service -a
● polkit.service - Authorization Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service; static)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2015-11-08 22:56:38 EST; 9min ago
     Docs: man:polkit(8)
 Main PID: 3703 (polkitd)
   CGroup: /system.slice/polkit.service
           └─3703 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug

Nov 08 22:56:38 localhost.localdomain polkitd[3703]: Started polkitd version 0.113
Nov 08 22:56:38 localhost.localdomain polkitd[3703]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d
Nov 08 22:56:38 localhost.localdomain polkitd[3703]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d
Nov 08 22:56:38 localhost.localdomain polkitd[3703]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 3 rules
Nov 08 22:56:38 localhost.localdomain polkitd[3703]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 on the system bus
Nov 08 22:56:38 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Authorization Manager.
Nov 08 22:56:51 localhost.localdomain polkitd[3703]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c1 (system bus name :1.41 [/usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/kde/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8)
Nov 08 23:03:52 localhost.localdomain polkitd[3703]: Operator of unix-session:c1 successfully authenticated as unix-user:root to gain ONE-SHOT authorization for action org.freedesktop.policykit.exec for unix-process:4385:43787 [/bin/bash] (owned by unix-user:bhr)

Code: Select all

$ qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer logout 0 2 0

Gave no output but shutdown and turned the computer off.

Before running these commands, I updated all the software. The problem only occurred once. Kde was the default install, I did not modify it.

BHReach wrote:Before running these commands, I updated all the software. The problem only occurred once.

Then you were missing updates. Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks

FWIW, if it reoccurs, could also be this bug which was recently reported: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17123