70403 – When selecting "Restart" or "Shutdown" from logout window, it doesn't restart or shutdown

Bug 70403 - When selecting "Restart" or "Shutdown" from logout window, it doesn't restart or shutdown

Summary: When selecting "Restart" or "Shutdown" from logout window, it doesn't restart...

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 33298

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] GNOME (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team

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Reported:	2004-11-07 19:47 UTC by Bruno Lustosa
Modified:	2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Bruno Lustosa 2004-11-07 19:47:27 UTC

If I select "Restart the Computer" or "Shut down" from the logout window, it doesn't actually do what it should. Instead of restarting or shutting down, it just gets back to the gdm login window.
To have it restarted or shut down, I can select "reboot" or "shutdown" from the System menu on the gdm login window. From there, it works properly.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. GNOME menu
2. Logout
3. Restart the computer

Actual Results:  
Logged out of the session, but didn't restart or shutdown.

Expected Results:  
Restart or shut down, depending on the selection.

Here's the output from emerge info:

Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0,
2.6.8-gentoo-r7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.5
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.22
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r6
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/gentoo/
http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X aalib alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups dga
encode esd f77 fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2
gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla
moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam
pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sasl sdl spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd
tetex tiff truetype unicode x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"

Comment 1 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-07 20:33:03 UTC

Please search first.

Gnome-session doesn't have permissions to shutdown, but GDM does by elevating it's privileges.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33298 ***