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addr

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From: Manitoba

Registered: 2008-12-04

Posts: 73

Shutdown/Login: solved

Newly installed Gnome (64 bit).
The Shutdown/Logout buttons both put me into the GDM login screen.

Seems like permissions to me.

Can someone help?

Last edited by addr (2009-10-10 17:13:07)

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bickman2k

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From: Olathe, KS

Registered: 2009-10-07

Posts: 15

Re: Shutdown/Login: solved

Is your user in the "power" group?

Vamp898

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From: 東京

Registered: 2009-01-03

Posts: 907

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Re: Shutdown/Login: solved

gpasswd -a $USERNAME audio
gpasswd -a $USERNAME video
gpasswd -a $USERNAME optical
gpasswd -a $USERNAME storage
gpasswd -a $USERNAME hal

Everything should work for you

addr

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From: Manitoba

Registered: 2008-12-04

Posts: 73

Re: Shutdown/Login: solved

Thankyou.

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addr

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From: Manitoba

Registered: 2008-12-04

Posts: 73

Re: Shutdown/Login: solved

It has started doing it again...intermittently.

I also have optical drive problems and flickering monitor display which I never had before...doesn't matter if I use nv or the proprietary Nvidia driver.

Just updated a Sidux install and an Arch Kdemod and the same problems have suddenly appeared (not the shutdown ones, but neither are gnome).

Both Sidux and Arch are using the latest kernels  and I KNOW that I didn't omit adding all the above groups to my user.

So I installed a stable Deb just to see if all these problems occurred...none of them did. Thank god...I was thinking new monitor.

It has to be the latest kernels and my hardware in my opinion. I also have a Deb testing install which has been running fine for nearly three years which has also just gone ape after updating.

I use smxi in Sidux so I can easily revert to an earlier kernel to test my theory if I didn't delete them which I think I maybe did! I'll get back on that.

Meanwhile in Arch is there an easy way to revert to an earlier (30 or 29) kernel?

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Gen2ly

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From: Sevierville, TN

Registered: 2009-03-06

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Re: Shutdown/Login: solved

Yep, check-out downgrading packages on the wiki.  Also since it looks like two separate issues, I suggest opening a thread for each one of them and give as much detail as you can abouteach.

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addr

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From: Manitoba

Registered: 2008-12-04

Posts: 73

Re: Shutdown/Login: solved

I have downgraded the kernel and so far anyway everything is fine.

Thanks for all the help.

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king.flasher.dave

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 140

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Re: Shutdown/Login: solved

Sorry to reopen this thread, BUT:

I have had the same problem as mentioned in the first post of this thread.

Shutdown/ Restart puts me back to the GDM login screen (all is up to date so far, so we're speaking of gnome 2.28 and gdm 2.28.1).
This only happens sometimes and not ALWAYS. I'm in all the groups mentioned in the second and third post, but still after a longer gnome session this problem will occur.

At that point I can not even use the shutdown command. It will just hang and I will not be able to escape from it.
It's very annoying, as I don't want to shutdown the computer manually... harddrives and partitions don't like it too much either.

I remember having this problem also with earlier versions of gnome and gdm, though with those I was thrown to the shell and not to the gdm login screen, when gnome would not successfully restart or shutdown.

Anyone any ideas, or had the same problem?

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