Can't - sometimes - leave kde

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/15/2012 07:14 PM, Martin Kho wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a really weird issue. Sometimes when I want to reboot, shutdown or log 
> out ('f' -> Leave -> Log out / Restart / Shut Down) nothing happens (the count 
> down messagebox doesn't appear) . Lock, Sleep and Hibernate are okay. There 
> are no error messages in .xsession-errors, /var/log/messages 
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log, /var/log/kdm.log and/or /var/log/secure.
>
> When log out etc. fails authentication more generally seems to fail. e.g. I 
> tried to change the shutdown command (System Settings -> Login Screen -> 
> Shutdown). After pressing the Apply button, a messagebox appeared telling that 
> authentication failed. In /var/log/secure the following messages appeared:
>
> May 14 23:17:12 ps-1866 polkitd(authority=local): Registered Authentication 
> Agent for unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 (system bus name 
> :1.55 [/usr/libexec/kde4/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1], object path 
> /org/kde/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8)
> May 14 23:18:14 ps-1866 polkitd(authority=local): Operator of unix-
> session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 FAILED to authenticate to gain 
> authorization for action org.kde.kcontrol.kcmkdm.save for unix-
> process:2171:397117 [/usr/bin/systemsettings -caption System Settings --icon 
> preferences-system] (owned by unix-user:martin)
>
> The above issue happens both in up to date Fedora 16 and 17.
>
> Have anyone else seen this? Any ideas how I can get more information on this 
> issue?
>

Yes, I've seen the same thing.  However, it seemed to always occur after a batch of
updates so I've ignored it.  At the moment, I don't know what should be done to
collect more information.

Ed



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