Gnome 2.26: Shutdown and reboot do not work

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danvari · Post by **danvari** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:06 am

Hey!

I recently updated my gnome-light 2.24 to gnome-light 2.26.3. now reboot and shutdown via system do not work anymore (they did before!). shutdown only kills all applications and only my wallpaper is still alive. reboot kills all applications and boots into gdm (but thats all).

i do not have those problems on ubuntu/archlinux, so it might be a gentoo/my own issue. i searched the forum but did not find any other people with that problem :-\

shallpion · Post by **shallpion** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:40 am

I have been being bothered by a similar problem at the first time when I was using gentoo during the last year.

when I choose reboot/shutdown the machine through gnome-panel, I just got my X restarted

I tried countless possible solutions to it, but none of them worked.....

danvari · Post by **danvari** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:52 am

the strange thing is that it worked with 2.24..

shallpion · Post by **shallpion** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:55 am

The history of this problem is almost as long as the history of gnome-2 T_T

for example check this out

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... /+bug/8238

I completely lost the hope to solve it. ....

shallpion · Post by **shallpion** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:03 am

shallpion wrote:The history of this problem is almost as long as the history of gnome-2 T_T

for example check this out

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... /+bug/8238

I completely lost the hope to solve it. ....

I have opend a bug at

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271023

and if you wish, you can surely reply that bug to tell them that in fact many people are still suffering from that problem

and in fact I wish you would, so maybe that could attract more attention....

magowiz · Post by **magowiz** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 9:18 am

Hi,
since I upgraded to gnome 2.26 , on first login the "restart computer" or "halt" makes the gnome session stop but it prompts to gdm and it doesn't reboot/halt the system.
If I login again and choose to restart/halt the system it works.

shallpion · Post by **shallpion** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 11:10 am

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-79 ... ight-.html

......

Akkara · Post by **Akkara** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:36 am

Merged above two posts here

gsra99 · Post by **gsra99** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 12:43 pm

I have this problem as well. Does anyone have a fix for it? Interestingly though gnome-light 2.24 actually uses gnome-session 2.22, and not gnome-session 2.24 which is masked. So I wonder if shutdown and reboot do not work in gnome-session 2.24. I have also noticed that the gnome power manager stops working when it comes to powering the LCD screen off after a set time? I have posted on that as well here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-797939.html

John5788 · Post by **John5788** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 5:51 am

have had the same problem for a while as well

mrpouet · Post by **mrpouet** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:10 am

This is a know bug in gnome-session, the actual issue is its crashes and come back to gdm (for 2.26), we had the same problem in 2.28.
So we wrote a patch to fix this crash.
The second problem is a malicious timeout executed on some logout/reboot/shutdown (ending EXIT phase), so finally we've to wait 10s... but that's a random bug

After patched gnome-session again, its seems to work now, however that's for gnome-session-2.28.

* could you fetch the gnome overlay ? (someone who has a testing profile)
* have a look at this upstream https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598211, and please try the patch named "gnome-session-2.28.0-do-not-keep-zombie-clients.patch", and get back me about the delay on "EXIT" (each logout/reboot/shutdown)

thanks in advance

magowiz · Post by **magowiz** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 7:58 pm

For me this has been fixed as reported to bug [bug=271023]#271023[/bug]

John5788 · Post by **John5788** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 5:50 am

mine doesnt return back to gdm. mine just closes everything in gnome and I'm left staring at my wallpaper. is this an unrelated issue?

yes9111 · Post by **yes9111** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:00 am

John5788 wrote:mine doesnt return back to gdm. mine just closes everything in gnome and I'm left staring at my wallpaper. is this an unrelated issue?

I think I have the exact same problem as John5788 ...
Have to shutdown using ALT+CTRL+F2 then using init 0

John5788 · Post by **John5788** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:34 am

yes that is how I reboot now.

k01 · Post by **k01** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 3:38 pm

i had the same problem and i solved it simply adding consolekit to the default runlevel

hardcore · Post by **hardcore** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 5:45 am

The Extremer wrote:i had the same problem and i solved it simply adding consolekit to the default runlevel

Solved for me using your tip!

mijenix · Post by **mijenix** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:40 am

Hi

Is there a way to get the gnome shutdown/reboot working without pam/consolekit enabled?

Jan 26 12:26:43 [gnome-session] WARNING: Unable to determine session: The name org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit was not provided by any .service files_
Jan 26 12:33:46 [gnome-session] WARNING: Unable to determine session: The name org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit was not provided by any .service files_
Jan 26 12:33:47 [gnome-session] WARNING: Could not connect to ConsoleKit: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit': no such name_
Jan 26 12:36:08 [gnome-session] WARNING: Could not connect to ConsoleKit: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit': no such name_
Jan 26 12:36:08 [gnome-session] WARNING: Unable to determine session: The name org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit was not provided by any .service files_

NTICompass · Post by **NTICompass** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:17 am

I added consolekit to the default runlevel, and I still cannot reboot/shutdown via Gnome-Panel.

NTICompass · Post by **NTICompass** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 6:25 pm

Anyone got any ideas as to why I cannot reboot/shutdown via GNOME Panel?

ffpp · Post by **ffpp** » Mon Feb 01, 2010 12:53 pm

Yes, same problem here.
Somehow gdm wont stop, I think this should be the root of this problem. Ctrl+Alt+F1 -> /etc/init.d/xdm stop -> Some error: Couldn't stop gdm. (@work atm so cannot check...)

b0nafide · Post by **b0nafide** » Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:08 pm

I've noticed that if I start "root terminal" at any time during my gnome-light session, shutdown and reboot from the gnome menu returns me to gdm.

If I avoid using "root terminal" during a session, the shutdown and reboot menu options work as expected.

Shutdown and reboot from the menu works also in these cases:
...I start a regular terminal session and su to root.
...I start other apps that require root credentials.

NTICompass · Post by **NTICompass** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 4:28 am

I still cannot shutdown/reboot from the icon on the GNOME Panel. I tried opening a terminal and su to root, that does nothing. Any other ideas?

NTICompass · Post by **NTICompass** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:19 pm

Feb 24 14:47:53 Hypercube gnome-session[5578]: WARNING: Unable to list
sessions: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this
message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message
had interface "org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager" member "GetSessions" error
name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit")

Found that in /var/log/messages. How do I fix it?

Oh, by the way:
nticompass@Hypercube ~ $ sudo ls -l /var/lib/ | grep PolicyKit
Password:
drwxrwx--- 2 root polkituser 4096 2010-01-26 20:33 PolicyKit
drwxr-xr-x 2 polkituser root 4096 2009-10-15 23:41 PolicyKit-public

mbentley · Post by **mbentley** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:31 pm

NTICompass wrote:Feb 24 14:47:53 Hypercube gnome-session[5578]: WARNING: Unable to list
sessions: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this
message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message
had interface "org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager" member "GetSessions" error
name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit")

Found that in /var/log/messages. How do I fix it?

Oh, by the way:
nticompass@Hypercube ~ $ sudo ls -l /var/lib/ | grep PolicyKit
Password:
drwxrwx--- 2 root polkituser 4096 2010-01-26 20:33 PolicyKit
drwxr-xr-x 2 polkituser root 4096 2009-10-15 23:41 PolicyKit-public

it looks like i am seeing the same as you. running amd64 here. haven't used my system in a while, updated my entire system today using the new desktop-gnome profile. were you able to find a solution?

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Apr 14 16:29:05 core2quad dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.8" (uid=11108 pid=4559 comm="gnome-session) interface="org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager" member="GetSessions" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit" (uid=0 pid=3804 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon))
Apr 14 16:29:05 core2quad gnome-session[4559]: WARNING: Unable to list sessions: Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.8" (uid=11108 pid=4559 comm="gnome-session) interface="org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager" member="GetSessions" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit" (uid=0 pid=3804 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon))

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