Can't - sometimes - leave kde

[George Galt]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> 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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As another data point, I had this issue with Fedora 15 (x86_64), but
it went away when I did a clean install of Fedora 16.