Bug 310949 – Cannot shutdown or reboot using shutdown icon in GNOME Panel

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Eric Siegel 2010-03-23 16:59:35 UTC]

When I click on the shutdown icon in the top right of my GNOME panel, clicking shutdown or reboot does nothing.

If I log out, I can correctly shutdown or reboot from the logon screen (gdm).

I also found this in /var/log/messages:
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") 

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

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click shutdown icon in GNOME Panel
2. Click reboot or shutdown

Actual Results:  
Shutdown window goes away, nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
Computer should reboot or shutdown.

Portage 2.1.7.17 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.31-gentoo-r10 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r10-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9300_@_2.50GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:30:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p35
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10
dev-lang/python:     2.6.4-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.1.0_beta1
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r3
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.6.3-r1, 1.7.9-r2, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.3
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc:       4.3.4
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=core2 -msse4.1 -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -msse4.1 -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.rit.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.llarian.net/ "
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /var/lib/layman/java-overlay /var/lib/layman/desktop-effects /var/lib/layman/Spring /var/lib/layman/sunrise /var/lib/layman/mozilla"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi aiglx alsa amd64 aoss asf bash-completion berkdb bittorrent branding bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cjk cleartype cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups curl cxx dbus dri dts dvb dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo faac faad fam ffmpeg finger flac fontconfig fortran ftp gcj gconf gd gdbm gif glitz gmp gnome gnutls gopher gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv imagemagick ipv6 java java6 javascript jpeg jpeg2k kerberos lame latex ldap libffi libnotify lirc mad matroska midi mikmod mmx mmx2 mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib nautilus ncurses networkmanager new-login nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl php png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection samba schroedinger sdl session skins spell spl sqlite sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg symlink sysfs system-sqlite tcl tcpd theora threads thunar tiff tk truetype unicode usb vim-syntax vorbis webkit wmf wxwidgets wxwindows x264 xcb xcomposite xine xinerama xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Jeremy Guitton 2010-03-23 18:48:22 UTC]

consolekit is started ?

# rc-status | grep consolekit

[Comment 2 Eric Siegel 2010-03-23 23:21:31 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> consolekit is started ?
> 
> # rc-status | grep consolekit
> 

Yes it is.

Hypercube ~ # rc-status | grep consolekit
 consolekit                                                         [ started  ]

[Comment 3 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2010-03-24 09:38:13 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 306687 ***