Hi all,

I have updated Kubuntu yesterday to 14.04. It has not been a smooth update at all. Anyway, the latest problem at hand is this: I cannot logout from KDE anymore (not shutdown or reboot). I have found this topic: viewtopic.php?f=67&t=109603&start=15 but it does not give any solution (just: "it suddently works again").

When I click on any of the logout buttons, the menu disappears as if the command was accepted, but nothing happens whatsoever and the desktop continues to work as if nothing happened.

I have tried the following:

- running this from command line:

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

Returns a blank line and the prompt, no output at all, and nothing happens.

- there is nothing in .xsession-errors

- loginctl is correct

I really don't know how to manage this.

Update: I am going through all the rest of the posts about similar problems.

- enabled debug with kdebugdialog, tried logging out then tailing ~/.xsession-errors : still empty
- my hostname is correct (set to "pinguino") and it resolves to localhost
- using lightdm as login manager (not for any particular reason)
- there are no applications inhibiting logout (it is a fresh session), the problem persists across reboots

Update 2: ok... so my answer is the same as the thread I mentioned before. It is working again. For no reason. After several reboots. Can't figure out what subtle change made the difference. Sorry about that.

Yes, unfortunately this is a recurring problem. At this stage, we've never been able to identify the specific cause for why this happens - although it does seem to impact particular people or installations (I haven't seen it in a very long time).

Had this problem after upgrading to ubuntu + kubuntu 14.04 LTS.

I got the issue fixed removing
.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc
and restart lightdm

Reference: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?61623-How-I-got-this-fixed-gt-KDE-cannot-logout-shutdown-reboot-etc
This also fixed issues with no sound due to no audio card listed in audio and video configuration

jbofill wrote:Had this problem after upgrading to ubuntu + kubuntu 14.04 LTS.

I got the issue fixed removing
.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc
and restart lightdm

Reference: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?61623-How-I-got-this-fixed-gt-KDE-cannot-logout-shutdown-reboot-etc
This also fixed issues with no sound due to no audio card listed in audio and video configuration

This resolved the issue for me too. Thanks!

Sounds as if some (minimized?) client silently inhibits logout.
-> You'll probably run into this again at some point.

Do you still have the ksmserverrc?

Sorry i'm answering to a late topic, but, i would say that the delete of .kde/share/config/ksmserverrc worked for me, and it also fixed many problems i had, (before removing, kmix didn't start with the system, and gparted cannot be started with the application bar.
thank you again