[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#748249: gnome-shell: Unable to shutdown

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le Thu, 22 May 2014 16:29:51 +0200,
Laurent Bigonville <bigon at debian.org> a écrit :

> Hello,
> 
> So some clarifications.
> 
> IMVHO Massimo's initial bug report is related to the fact that lightdm
> is not registering a logind session for the user. This is causing
> policykit to deny the shutdown action.
> 
> gdm3 had a somehow similar bug that was caused by a race condition
> with the activation of logind when not using systemd as PID1. This
> bug is now fixed in unstable and experimental by forcing the
> activation of logind [1], note that this is only working for systemd
> 204, systemd-shim will have to deal with that for 204+

Massimo could you try again on your machine with gdm (please verify
that you have gdm3 3.8.4-9 installed on your machine and booted with
that version) and tell us if you still have the same issue?

Thanks

Laurent Bigonville