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Cannot shut down from KDE workspace after upgrade to Saucy

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Adding to my sequel of things broken after the upgrade:

NetworkManager broken after upgrade to Kubuntu Saucy

User cannot mount disks after upgrade to Saucy

When I select shutdown from the KDE workspace, I only get back to the login screen. When I do sudo poweroff, I can halt the machine.

I have the impression that something is fundamentally broken with permissons on my system. Networking only works from a root shell, mounting as well and now shutdown.

What is up with all that?

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answered 2 Years ago rhaeams · Accepted Answer

My system was presenting exactly the same symptoms after the upgrade to saucy baulked halfway through at tex-common and some other packages, leaving me with a crippled laptop. Via chroot I reconfigured the policy packages as explained in your other thread
dpkg-reconfigure policykit-1 policykit-desktop-privileges consolekit polkit-kde-1. I also finished off the upgrade with apt-get update && apt-get upgrade.

That probably helped, but still didn't give me a working network connection. What finally worked for me was pam-auth-update --force as explained here. So it looks like it was something "fundamentally broken with permissions".