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

[Tony Houghton]

On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:07:28 +0100
Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:

> Le mercredi 06 janvier 2010 à 15:55 +0000, Tony Houghton a écrit : 
> > 
> > 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.

I had a look at gnome-session's source and saw that it tries to use
consolekit first with gdm's socket interface as a fallback, whereas
ROX-Session doesn't use consolekit at all and tries gdm's socket
interface first. So this does look like a consolekit problem, perhaps
this bug should be reassigned.

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

I'm not surprised this didn't trigger the bug, because that would have
removed what appears to be the cause of it and made gnome-session fall
back on the more reliable gdm interface.

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