Bug#535247: gnome-panel: shutdown button exhibits erratic behaviour

[Norbert Preining]

Package: gnome-panel
Version: 2.26.2-1
Severity: normal

Pressing the shutdown button and selection "Shutdown" currently exhibits
a very erratic behaviour: Either it shuts down the computer, or it just
logs me out and goes back to the gdm welcome screen.

I am checking that now since weeks, and I couldn't find any pattern
in they way it behaves. The only idea (but without being able to
actually check that) was that if I su-ed a few times the shutdown
was only a logout.

All the best

Norbert


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers transitional-i386
  APT policy: (500, 'transitional-i386'), (500, 'transitional'), (500, 'unstable'), (400, 'unstable-i386')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-panel depends on:
ii  gnome-about                2.26.1-1      The GNOME about box
ii  gnome-control-center       1:2.26.0-1    utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-desktop-data         2.26.1-1      Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii  gnome-menus                2.26.1-1      an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  gnome-panel-data           2.26.2-1      common files for the GNOME Panel
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.26.0-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.24.1-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0             2.24.1-1      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                      2.9-18        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.8.8-2       The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.2.14-3      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.80-4        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libecal1.2-7               2.26.2-1      Client library for evolution calen
ii  libedataserver1.2-11       2.26.2-1      Utility library for evolution data
ii  libedataserverui1.2-8      2.26.2-1      GUI utility library for evolution 
ii  libgconf2-4                2.26.2-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.4-1     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.20.4-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-11      2.26.1-1      Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu2             2.26.1-1      an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnome2-0                2.26.0-1      The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.24.1-1      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.16.2-1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgweather1               2.26.1-1      GWeather shared library
ii  libical0                   0.43-2        iCalendar library implementation i
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.17-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0         2.26.2-1      library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.24.3-1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpolkit-dbus2            0.9-4         library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2                 0.9-4         library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  librsvg2-2                 2.26.0-1      SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libwnck22                  2.26.1-1      Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.2.1-1     X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                    1:1.0.4-2     X11 authorisation library
ii  menu-xdg                   0.4           freedesktop.org menu compliant win

Versions of packages gnome-panel recommends:
ii  alacarte                      0.12.1-1   easy GNOME menu editing tool
ii  evolution-data-server         2.26.2-1   evolution database backend server
ii  gnome-applets                 2.26.1-1   Various applets for the GNOME pane
ii  gnome-icon-theme              2.26.0-1   GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-session                 2.26.1-7   The GNOME Session Manager
ii  gvfs                          1.2.3-1    userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  policykit-gnome               0.9.2-2    GNOME dialogs for PolicyKit

Versions of packages gnome-panel suggests:
ii  epiphany-browser              2.26.1-1   Intuitive web browser - dummy pack
ii  evolution                     2.26.2-2   groupware suite with mail client a
ii  gdm                           2.20.9-1   GNOME Display Manager
ii  gnome-session                 2.26.1-7   The GNOME Session Manager
ii  gnome-system-tools            2.22.1-6   Cross-platform configuration utili
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-em 2.26.2-2   The GNOME terminal emulator applic
ii  gnome-user-guide [gnome2-user 2.26.2-1   GNOME user's guide
ii  guake [x-terminal-emulator]   0.4.0-4    A drop-down terminal for GNOME Des
ii  konsole [x-terminal-emulator] 4:4.2.4-1  X terminal emulator for KDE 4
ii  lxterminal [x-terminal-emulat 0.1.5-1    desktop independent vte-based term
ii  nautilus                      2.26.3-1   file manager and graphical shell f
ii  roxterm [x-terminal-emulator] 1.12.2-1   multi-tabbed GTK+2 terminal emulat
ii  rxvt-unicode [x-terminal-emul 9.06-1     RXVT-like terminal emulator with U
ii  terminator [x-terminal-emulat 0.12-2     multiple GNOME terminals in one wi
ii  xfce4-terminal [x-terminal-em 0.2.12-3   Xfce terminal emulator
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]   243-1      X terminal emulator
ii  yelp                          2.26.0-1   Help browser for GNOME

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