GDM refuses to shutdown.

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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

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