Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:47:18 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Nick Date <nickdate@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM refuses to shutdown. Message-ID: <1271544438.18212.50.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <4BCA2DE2.4030809@yahoo.co.uk>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 22:53 +0100, Nick Date wrote: > Hi, > > Having been through various attempts at fixing this problem on the > forums here http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=12087 I believe > that there may be a bug in GDM/Gnome. > > Attempts from a 'normal' user to shutdown or restart the system whilst > logged into Gnome (via GDM) cause the xserver to restart and cause the > following message to be displayed in /var/log/messages ... > > Apr 17 22:11:47 bobby console-kit-daemon[1263]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: > g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > Attempts to shut down from the GDM login screen also cause the above > message but the xserver does not restart. > > - Both the user 'gdm' and login 'gdm' exist. I have tried making the gdm > user a member of both operator and wheel to no avail. > > - My 'normal' user can shutdown fine from a Terminal by doing a > 'shutdown -p now' > > - The system shuts down cleanly when the front power button is pressed. > Pressing [CTRL], [ALT] + [DEL] on a console causes a clean reboot. > > - avahi, hald and dbus are running. gnome is started from rc.conf using > 'gnome_enable="YES"' > > - /usr/local/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf is as follows ... > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- XML -*- --> > > <!DOCTYPE pkconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Configuration > 1.0//EN" > "http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit/1.0/config.dtd">; > > <!-- See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format --> > > <config version="0.1"> > <match user="root"> > <return result="yes"/> > </match> > <define_admin_auth group="wheel"/> > </config> > > - I have tried adding the following to /usr/local/etc/gdm/custom.conf ... > > [daemon] > HaltCommand=/sbin/shutdown -r now > RebootCommand=/sbin/shutdown -r now > > - procfs is mounted on /proc > > > Any help / confirmation of whether this is a bug or just my computer > would be greatly appreciated. Force a rebuild/reinstall of sysutils/polkit and sysutils/polickit. Reboot, and you should be set. Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkvKOnUACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4cXSwCfeJx0810CJuDKE48Xda3d81qd Ea0An0HMPbVxGZZTVGL6zD9ErAim6KJU =AsuN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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