Bug#568401: gnome-core: Problem logging out / shutting down / restarting system from gnome for all users including root.

[Aditya]

Package: gnome-core
Version: 1:2.22.2~5
Severity: important

I freshly installed Debian Lenny x86 with net installation CD and am experiencing problem logging out / shutting down / restarting the system from the  
"System" menu. When I click appropriate menu item to log out nothing happens until I open some application (except nautilus). When this other 
application window opens, the system logs me out successfully. Same issue is experieneced with shutdown and restart. Root user as well as standard 
user accounts have this problem.

I installed OS using net install cd and did not select "Desktop" in task selection. Once into command line system, I installed backported kernel 
2.6.30-bpo.2-bigmem, firmware-iwlwifi and wireless tools for iwlagn. Then I installed gnome-core, gdm, gnome-backgrounds, gnome-themes, 
gnome-themes-extras and iceweasel. None of these packages were installed from lenny-backports. I also installed NVidia driver (not using debian way). There are no other 
packages installed on the system (it is absolutely a fresh install).

I had the same setup earlier on the same computer and never had this problem. The only difference I know of is that the earlier system was installed 
using Debian install CD 1. Even there, I did not select "Desktop" task, essentially followed the same procedure outlined above.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-bpo.2-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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-core depends on:
ii  eog                      2.22.3-2        Eye of GNOME graphics viewer progr
ii  gedit                    2.22.3-1+lenny1 official text editor of the GNOME 
ii  gnome-applets            2.22.3-3        Various applets for GNOME 2 panel 
ii  gnome-control-center     1:2.22.2.1-2    utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-icon-theme         2.22.0-1        GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-menus              2.22.2-4        an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  gnome-panel              2.20.3-5        launcher and docking facility for 
ii  gnome-session            2.22.3-2        The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-settings-daemon    2.22.2.1-2      GNOME settings daemon
ii  gnome-terminal           2.22.3-3        The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  metacity                 1:2.22.0-2      A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  nautilus                 2.20.0-7        file manager and graphical shell f
ii  scrollkeeper             0.3.14-16       A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  yelp                     2.22.1-8+b1     Help browser for GNOME 2

gnome-core recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-core suggests:
pn  gnome-desktop-environment     <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information