No shutdown/reboot in KDE

[sddm]

When logged in using SDDM, KDE doesn't show the shut down and reboot options in the kickoff menu. When logged in through KDM these options are available.

[sddm]

According to user reports this issue is fixed in KDE trunk. Should be closed after a new version of KDE Plasma Workspaces containing the fix is released.

[ilpianista]

4.10.1 has been released, maybe this can be closed now?

[c-cesar]

Using KDE SC 4.10.1 and SDDM from git, and the bug sills here to me.

[aavci1]

I guess the fix is going to be released with KDE 4.11 since it was a somewhat big change. And a minor correction, this is not a bug on KDE's behalf actually, it was simply not having systemd session management support which is now reportedly fixed in master.

[a17r]

The bug is not limited to systemd though, there's also no shutdown/reboot here with openrc/sysvinit. //eerm OK, that would be lack of consolekit support then, my bad ;)

[aavci1]

With current sddm master and KDE SC 4.10.1 I have shutdown and reboot options back in kickoff and they work.

@ndr @Cochise @a17r Can you test and report back please?

[zcater]

@aavci1 I just rebuilt sddm-git aur package but nothing changed in regard to shutdown/reboot entries.

[a17r]

@aavci1: just rebuilt, doesn't work here either with 4.10.1

[aavci1]

Ok, I have found the reason. I had installed consolekit-git yesterday. It seems to be fixing the issue.

So basically it is not our fault anymore, you either need to install consolekit or KDE 4.11. If others confirm that installing consolekit-git fixes the issue, I will close the issue.

[ilpianista]

Then we miss logind support as ConsoleKit is deprecated, and logind replaces it.

[a17r]

@aavci1: From what repository did you pull consolekit? Unfortunately, there's no live ebuild for it on Gentoo. My installed version here is consolekit-0.4.5_p20120320 //that would be the date of the last git commit in consolekit repo.

[aavci1]

@ndr You are right, consolekit is deprecated but logind is not fully supported by KDE SC 4.10. Logind support comes with 4.11. There is nothing we can do. Now this is a choice that needs to be done by distributions.

@a17r I have used the consolekit-git package provided by manjaro. You can look into this PKGBUILD to see how to do that. After that you need to rebuild kdeworkspace with consolekit support.

[a17r]

@aavci1: From the link you provided, it is clear to me that we are using the same version of consolekit. Gentoo applies a few patches in addition, I'll have a look into that.

Otherwise, my consolekit setup is fine because kdm just works (consolekit support is enabled globally).

[aavci1]

@a17r KDM worked fine here without consolekit too. So it is not a good measure on.

You can test using lightdm-kde. My tests show that we are pretty much at the same level with them on this.

I am closing the issue since this is not a bug on our side, we can't do anything to fix it and can be fixed by building kde workspace with consolekit support.

[a17r]

@aavci1: OK, now there's working shutdown/reboot with lightdm-kde, but not sddm.

[aavci1]

@a17r I suspect that it is about pam configuration. You can check that by copying lightdm's pam service file over sddm's. Either way, we can discuss at #sddm on irc.freenode.net.

[vkravets]

I faced with the same issue after upgrade to last version of KDE... I'm using Arch Linux... Could you please advice in which way perform investigation to resolve this issue?

[aavci1]

@vkravets If you are using KDE 4.10.x you need to install consolekit or wait for the 4.11 release for systemd support.

[eliasp]

For anyone still affected by this: please have a look at Gentoo Bug #451954 which provides a link to a KDE patch to add the support also in KDE 4.10.x.