Bug#563956: gnome-session: Reboot and shutdown don't always work

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mercredi 06 janvier 2010 à 15:55 +0000, Tony Houghton a écrit : 
> Sometimes when I clcik Restart or Shutdown in the menu or panel applet I
> get logged out but then the gdm login screen comes up instead of the
> system rebooting or halting as requested. It stays there until I choose
> Shutdown or Restart from its Actions/Options menu. This happens on a
> 32-bit unstable system I use too. FWIW both systems are configured for
> gdm to automatically log me in.
> 
> I think this is a problem with gnome-session rather than gdm because I
> used to use ROX-Session, which requests gdm to shutdown or reboot via
> its socket interface, and that always worked correctly.

This is probably a problem in consolekit. It could be related to an
issue Luca encountered while trying out GDM 2.28.

Does killing any console-kit-daemon process before logging out trigger
the bug for sure?

Cheers,
-- 
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