Restart in the main menu does a logout instead

[Jens Herrmann]

Since the upgrade to 13.10 two days ago I have a malfunction when trying to restart the system. When I choose 'Log Out' at the bottom of the list of the 'start' button, followed by 'Restart' in the dialog window, I get to the login manager instead.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: xfce4 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 23 19:39:01 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-08-13 (436 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: xfce4
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-22 (1 days ago)

[Thaddaeus Tintenfisch (thad-fisch-deactivatedaccount)]

When does this happen exactly? All the time or only after a suspend/hibernate cycle? On top of that, is the package "systemd-shim" installed on your system?

[Jesusfreak (launchpad-bikelab)]

It does not happen all the time. I cannot say how this is connected to suspend/hibernate at the moment but will do further tests.

The package systemd-shim is installed on my system.

[Jan Drewes (j-launchpad01)]

I am experiencing the same issue on 2 computers (one laptop, one desktop) that were upgraded from 13.04. A third computer, also upgraded, does not have this problem. I am willing to make comparisons between the systems if someone could tell me where to start?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Thaddaeus Tintenfisch (thad-fisch-deactivatedaccount)]

Jan Drewes, is it a general issue or does it happen occasionally (like after suspending/hibernating)?

[Jan Drewes (j-launchpad01)]

It happens always. And after upgrading yet another desktop machine, that machine has the same problem.

[Jan Drewes (j-launchpad01)]

I should perhaps add that I have texlive-full installed on *all* of these machines, and the included package texlive-common (or tex-common?) caused troubles during the upgrade, requiring me to do apt-get install -f and apt-get dist-upgrade manually on all these machines. But I don't quite see how that would affect logout/shutdown affairs?

[Thaddaeus Tintenfisch (thad-fisch-deactivatedaccount)]

Lets see, can you attach the output of "cat /etc/pam.d/common-session | grep systemd" please? The entry for systemd might be missing due to the described trouble during the upgrade process.

[Thaddaeus Tintenfisch (thad-fisch-deactivatedaccount)]

On top of that, did you already make sure that the package "systemd-shim" is installed?

[Jan Drewes (j-launchpad01)]

package systemd-shim was not installed. Installing it solved the problem, the bug no longer occurs. For me, the problem is solved now!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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