Plasma 6.1.4 Restart/Shutdown buttons do literally nothing

optiluca · Last edited by optiluca on Wed Sep 11, 2024 8:17 pm; edited 2 times in total

Hi. I've seen a few threads that are vaguely similar to what I'm seeing, but nothing exactly like this.

I updated to Plasma 6.1.4, and everything seems to be working OK in both Wayland and X11 *except* the Restart and Shutdown buttons, which when clicked do absolutely nothing. No prompts, no errors, no nothing.

The only evidence of anything having happened is in /var/log/syslog:

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 9320

optiluca · Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2024 10:24 am Post subject:

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 9320

Are there any file left for you to update? Run dispatch-conf just to make sure.

Please also show us `eshowkw sys-auth/polkit` output.

In case it shows >=124 installed, try downgrade to 123 (see also https://bugs.gentoo.org/923614).

optiluca · Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2024 10:29 am Post subject:

ese002 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 153

What system restore setting are you using? I've seen this do nothing behavior from "on last logout" after switching from "when session was manually saved". Try switching to "start with an empty session", log out, log back in, and then switch back to "on last logout"

optiluca · Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2024 8:05 pm Post subject:

That fixed it, thanks! I guess some configuration didn't carry over cleanly from my old Plasma installation?

[edit] actually, it's almost-fixed. I have to keep it set to "Start with an empty session". If I revert back to "On last logout", after a first successful reboot, the buttons stop working again. Any ideas?

Thanks again
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ese002 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 153

Curious. "on last logout" works for me. But I went "last saved" -> "empty session" -> "last logout"

You could try that. You probably need to kill "session-backup" (ps -eaf |grep session) to get out of "last saved"

I would suggest reversing the first change mentioned in https://bugs.gentoo.org/938925#c1 That is the next experiment on my list for "last saved".

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optiluca · Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 8:52 am Post subject:

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 9320

Please test with kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-6.1.5-r2. It contains the fix for upstream bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488853

optiluca · Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2024 4:45 pm Post subject:

No luck, behaviour is unchanged. I updated everything, rebooted, set session restore "on last logout", rebooted. Upon booting some apps opened (but not the ones I had left open upon shutdown). And now the shutdown/reboot buttons do literally nothing.

Isn't there any logging of any kind? My hunch is that I just need to delete a file from my user profile somewhere, but I can't for the life of me work out what

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sokhapkin · Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2024 11:54 pm Post subject:

I have exactly the same problem, but I use "When session was manually saved" option. log out/shutdown/restart buttons work only if "start with empty session" is choosen. I tried both migrated plasma5->plasma6 user profile and a new user.

sokhapkin · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 7:48 pm Post subject:

Seems like I found the root cause of the problem - non-empty "Ignored applications" list in the "Desktop session". I had "kmix" there. Everything works OK after clearing the list. Log out/Shut Down/Restart work now OK.