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BollerwagenPicard

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From: Grimma | Germany

Registered: 2021-07-30

Posts: 36

cinnamon can not shutdown system

Unfortunately, I have no knowledge of how to debug my current problem. I use the desktop environment cinnamon on both my systems. Since the last update on both systems I have the problem that the GUI can no longer shut down the system.If I use the corresponding button for shutdown or reboot, the GUI only reverts to the login screen.

% pikaur -Qs cinnamon
local/cinnamon 6.0.4-3
    Linux desktop which provides advanced innovative features and a traditional user experience
local/cinnamon-control-center 6.2.0-1
    The Control Center for Cinnamon
local/cinnamon-desktop 6.2.0-1
    Library with common API for various Cinnamon modules
local/cinnamon-menus 6.2.0-1
    Cinnamon menu specifications
local/cinnamon-screensaver 6.2.0-1
    Screensaver designed to integrate well with the Cinnamon desktop.
local/cinnamon-session 6.2.0-1
    The Cinnamon Session Handler
local/cinnamon-settings-daemon 6.2.0-1
    The Cinnamon Settings daemon
local/cinnamon-translations 6.2.0-1
    Translations for Cinnamon and Nemo
local/cjs 6.2.0-1
    Javascript Bindings for Cinnamon
local/muffin 6.2.0-1
    Cinnamon window manager based on Mutter
local/nemo 6.0.2-1
    Cinnamon file manager (Nautilus fork)
local/numix-cinnamon-dark 4.6.7-1
    A darker-themed fork of zagortenay333/numix-cinnamon
local/xdg-desktop-portal-xapp 1.0.5-1
    A backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal using GTK and various pieces of Cinnamon/MATE/Xfce4 infrastructure

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 57,450

Re: cinnamon can not shutdown system

What is the "login screen"/how do you start the session?
If the answer is "startx", see the last link below otherwise in doubt post the output of "loginctl session-status"

Can you "cinnamon-session-quit --power-off --force"?
https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/cin … -quit.1.en

x-ref: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=296672 (but xfce)

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BollerwagenPicard

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From: Grimma | Germany

Registered: 2021-07-30

Posts: 36

Re: cinnamon can not shutdown system

My Desktop:

  Since: Sun 2024-06-16 15:20:04 CEST; 11min ago
  State: active
 Leader: 1640 (lightdm)
   Seat: seat0; vc7
    TTY: tty7
 Remote: no
Service: lightdm
   Type: x11
  Class: user
Desktop: cinnamon
   Idle: no
   Unit: session-2.scope
         ├─1640 lightdm --session-child 13 20
         ├─1891 /usr/lib/cinnamon-session/cinnamon-session-binary --session cinnamon

My Notebook:

Since: Sun 2024-06-16 15:35:30 CEST; 28s ago
  State: active
 Leader: 1505 (gdm-session-wor)
   Seat: seat0; vc2
    TTY: tty2
 Remote: no
Service: gdm-password
   Type: x11
  Class: user
   Idle: no
   Unit: session-4.scope
         ├─1505 "gdm-session-worker [pam/gdm-password]"
         ├─1537 /usr/lib/gdm-x-session --register-session --run-script cinnamon-session-cinnamon

"cinnamon-session-quit --power-off --force" opens the window for poweroff and reboot... if I push the power off I get back to lightdm

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 57,450

Re: cinnamon can not shutdown system

Try to downgrade https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … n-session/ - https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-session/issues looks like the dialog was completely rewritten…
nb. that this might cause cinnamon to not start at all anymore, so be prepared to restore the package from a console login.

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archbusby

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Registered: 2024-06-16

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Re: cinnamon can not shutdown system

Downgrading to cinnamon-session-6.0.4-1 seemed to fix the issue.

It also seems like there are some pending updates to cinnamon-session 6.2.0:  https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … mmits/main

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 57,450

Re: cinnamon can not shutdown system

The pending changes in the repo are maintainence stuff (build dependencies etc) and will not fix this issue.
You need to report this upstream, apparently there're quite some issues w/ the logout dialog rewrite.

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archbusby

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Registered: 2024-06-16

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Re: cinnamon can not shutdown system

seth,
Thanks for the reply.  I opened an issue here:  https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-s … issues/173

zerophase

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Registered: 2015-09-03

Posts: 231

Re: cinnamon can not shutdown system

I have a similar issue. I auto login, and after shutting down I need to hold the power button for a couple seconds to finish the shutdown process. Maybe, configuring auto login would be a workaround that still allows shutting down.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 57,450

Re: cinnamon can not shutdown system

For the OP the system doesn't shut down at all, the cinnabun dialog unconditionally just logs out.
This is an addressed regression ins cinnamon-session, see the linked bug.

There've been some reports of the system failing to auto power-off after a shutdown.
Does it evetntually power off if you want 5 minutes? Or do you end in a kernel panic?

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jiggol

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Registered: 2024-01-13

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Re: cinnamon can not shutdown system

Downgrading to cinnamon-session-6.0.4-1 seemed to fix the issue.

It also seems like there are some pending updates to cinnamon-session 6.2.0:  https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … mmits/main

I experienced an issue where downgrading only the cinnamon-session package caused logging out upon screen lock.

BollerwagenPicard

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From: Grimma | Germany

Registered: 2021-07-30

Posts: 36

Re: cinnamon can not shutdown system

seth,
Thanks for the reply.  I opened an issue here:  https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-s … issues/173

Thank you for opening a upstream issue

planetjay

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Registered: 2024-07-01

Posts: 1

Re: cinnamon can not shutdown system

Pull request 3 weeks ago. https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-session/pull/172

This is why I quit using Mint. Guess I need to quit using Cinnamon too.

Nowaker

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From: Gdańsk, Poland

Registered: 2011-10-26

Posts: 24

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Re: cinnamon can not shutdown system

Pull request 3 weeks ago. https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-session/pull/172

I can confirm this fixed the issue.

AFAIR, Cinnamon hasn't had a working shutdown/reboot button for me for a year or two. With a dropdown terminal available to me at any time with a press of ALT+`, my use `sudo shutdown -h now` and `sudo reboot` didn't bother me much.