Hello everyone, the problem I'm having is simple: shutdown and logout take around 20 seconds and for no reason the oem logo flashes 2 times at both logout and shutdown.

If I systemctl poweroff from terminal everything shuts down normally and fast

I don't need automatic saving of the session if that's what it's trying to do and I already tried every combination of settings in System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Desktop Session.
I disabled Hibernate since I don't use it and I would go as far as to say I don't even need logout if that's helping. Just a plain old simple shutdown. Can someone help me?

Edit: After checking jounalctl it seems like these are the 3 biggest differences in time between consecutive entries. If needed I can post the full journal from the moment i shutdown to the end. But these 3 alone seem to amount for 30 seconds

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Oct 27 23:46:26 msi systemd[1]: user-963.slice: Consumed 1.048s CPU time.
Oct 27 23:46:32 msi systemd[1]: systemd-hostnamed.service: Deactivated successfully.

Oct 27 23:46:32 msi kernel: audit: type=1334 audit(1635367592.242:86): prog-id=12 op=UNLOAD
Oct 27 23:46:46 msi plasmashell[1724]: qt.svg: <input>:406:376: Could not add child element to parent element because the types are incorrect.

Oct 27 23:46:47 msi kwin_x11[1663]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 4711, resource id: 39846047, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
Oct 27 23:46:57 msi ksmserver[1703]: org.kde.kf5.ksmserver: SmsDie timeout, client  "/usr/lib/kdeconnectd" ( 106d73690000163536760700000017030011 )


All of the delays were caused by KDE Connect. I tried to find a way of disabling it at startup but removing org.kde.kdeconnect.daemon.desktop from /etc/xdg/autostart didn't do anything.

There isn't an entry for it in System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Background Services so it always runs in the background at startup and listening on two ports.

I think it would be normal to have an option to start the service only if it's explicitly opened, if there is let me know. Until then I uninstalled it and everything shuts down nicely now

I had the same problem in a previous plasma version. I didn't find a solution at the time so I wrote a little zenity script for logout/reboot/shutdown. Like so:

#!/bin/bash

shot_type=$(zenity --list --radiolist --height=200 \
--column "Select" --column "One of these..." --width=250 \
TRUE "Logout !" \
FALSE "Reboot !" \
FALSE "Shutdown !" \
--separator=":");

case $shot_type in
"Logout !")
loginctl terminate-user "name"
;;
"Reboot !")
systemctl reboot
;;
"Shutdown !")
systemctl poweroff
;;
*)
esac

Named it logout.sh, put it in some folder and made a menu entry for it. Needs zenity. Adjust size to your liking and put in your name. It's not much, but hey..