Removing knotifyrc doesn't resolve the issue for me. Spoke to someone (scottk) on irc of #kubuntu-devel and there is an intel related bug which could be related to this. I run on Intel hardware.. see attachment for lshw output
** Attachment added: "lshw of laptop" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30268431/lshw.log -- [karmic] Unable to logout/reboot/shutdown from within KDE https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410466 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs