[Bug 465672] [NEW] KDE won't shut down

[Adric Riedel]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: kdebase

I'm running a release version of Kubuntu 9.10; all updates as of
2009-10-30, on an HP Pavilion dv3-2150us.


Observed behavior: When I go to the KDE menu and select shutdown (or use the shutdown/lock widget to shut down), I get a dialog whose options do nothing.  No matter what I click on, I am returned to the desktop with no changes.  Further attempts to click on the shutdown button do nothing at all; there is no dialog.
I have to shut down my system with `sudo shutdown now' or similar.
This is identical to a supposedly closed bug that pinned the problem on knotify waiting to play the logout sound and being unable to.  
Before I tried a clean install of Kubuntu 9.10, I was running Kubuntu 9.10RC, and when this happened, turning off the shutdown sound in System Settings->Notifications->KDE Settings worked.  I would verify the names of those panels in the system settings applet, but after I try to shut down the `right' way, I can't open the System Settings applet at all.

Expected behavior: KDE logs out/shuts down.

Question: sox (`play') and pidgin have sound; play skips with alsa
underruns every so often and pidgin only has sound when its server is
set to `automatic' or `esd'.  KDE apps like Amarok and KDE notifications
(but curiously not dragon-player) themselves are silent.  Is this
inability to shut down linked to my inability to play sounds in KDE?

** Affects: kdebase (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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KDE won't shut down
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