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rocktorrentz

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From: Southampton, England

Registered: 2007-08-05

Posts: 141

Can't log out or shutdown gnome?

I just switched to arch64 with gnome (nvidia drivers) a few days ago and most things work. However now I can't log out or shutdown the system without using the terminal; if I click "Log Out" on the "Log out of this system now?" screen it freezes and I have to kill the window. I have no idea what is causing it as disabling compiz fusion doesn't help and even loading in "gnome failsafe" mode. I could log out and shut down fine when I first set up the system but I must have installed something which broke it.

Any ideas?

tigrmesh

IRC Op

From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: Can't log out or shutdown gnome?

Try looking at /var/log/pacman.log for the day this problem first appeared.  Maybe a config file got changed or a package needs to be reinstalled.  If you don't find anything, try reinstalling gdm.

Edit:  Is your user a member of the 'power' group?  Check that; the group file may be one of the configs that has changed.

Last edited by tigrmesh (2008-05-07 15:46:02)

rocktorrentz

Member

From: Southampton, England

Registered: 2007-08-05

Posts: 141

Re: Can't log out or shutdown gnome?

I had changed my hosts file Works fine now.

_Marco_

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 242

Re: Can't log out or shutdown gnome?

@rocktorrentz can you tell me what changes you made to fix it?
because I didn't change the /etc/hosts file but when I try to shutdown the computer it freezes X too...
(I removed gnome configs files without effect)
Thanks in advance

rocktorrentz

Member

From: Southampton, England

Registered: 2007-08-05

Posts: 141

Re: Can't log out or shutdown gnome?

It had

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost

and I changed it to

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   desktop

Changing it back fixed the problem.