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

[Tony Houghton]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 2.28.0-4
Severity: normal


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.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  gnome-panel                   2.28.0-3   launcher and docking facility for 
ii  gnome-session-bin             2.28.0-4   The GNOME Session Manager - Minima
ii  gnome-settings-daemon         2.28.1-1   daemon handling the GNOME session 
ii  metacity                      1:2.28.0-3 lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii  nautilus                      2.28.4-1   file manager and graphical shell f
ii  policykit-1-gnome             0.95-1     GNOME authentication agent for Pol

Versions of packages gnome-session recommends:
ii  gnome-power-manager           2.28.2-1   power management tool for the GNOM

Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  5.0.5      common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  gnome-keyring                 2.28.2-1   GNOME keyring services (daemon and
ii  gnome-user-guide [gnome2-user 2.28.2-1   GNOME user's guide

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