Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:14:05 +0100 From: Nick Date <nickdate@yahoo.co.uk> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM refuses to shutdown. Message-ID: <4BCB842D.9040803@yahoo.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1271544438.18212.50.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <4BCA2DE2.4030809@yahoo.co.uk> <1271544438.18212.50.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > 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 > > Joe, Thank you so much - that worked a treat. I will post a message on the forums letting them know that this issue is now resolved so they can close the thread. Thanks again! :) Nick.
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