Digging a bit further, it looks it's getting stuck somewhere in the Qt.quit() call in onLogoutReady in qml/Components/Dialogs.qml. Now to try to educate myself on what this does...
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1353041 Title: Logging out of the Unity8 desktop preview session hangs Status in “unity8” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “unity8-desktop-session” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When logging out of a Unity8 desktop preview session, it hangs and keeps displaying the Logout dialogue but nothing else happens. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8/+bug/1353041/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp