Gshutdown does not work properly

[gerard]

I've installed (no upgrade) Hardy. I found out that Gshutdown is in the same situation as previously Gutsy (I already mentioned it at that time!!) i.e.

When I program a session closing at a predetermined time: fine
BUT when I want to shutdown at a given time, Gshutdown actually closes the session but does not shutdown

[JohnSchoffstall (js-immerbox)]

I get the same behavior. New 8.04 install. When Gshutdown is run from a desktop launcher, and is set to shutdown the PC, it merely logs off the user and brings up the GDM screen. Version is 0.2. Preferences are set to 'autodetect'.

When it is run from the command line, however, it correctly shuts down the PC.

Incidentally, I get this on the terminal when I run it from the command line:

(gshutdown:24585): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_tree_row_reference_new: assertion `GTK_IS_TREE_MODEL (model)' failed

(gshutdown:24585): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_cell_view_set_displayed_row: assertion `GTK_IS_TREE_MODEL (cell_view->priv->model)' failed

(gshutdown:24585): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_hide: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

** (gshutdown:24585): WARNING **: Failed to establish a connection with GDM: No such file or directory

I ran 0.2 in Gutsy, and it worked correctly from a launcher.

[Danijel Šnajder (phantomlord-deactivatedaccount)]

I confirm this, gshutdown "log out" my computer instead of turning it off, the program is only working when I'm real lucky. Can't figure out why it does work one time, and does not the other.

[gerard (zzking)]

On my part, I've never been lucky!!

[Youri (i-bis)]

I'm using Ubuntu Hardy Heron on Acer 9303 wlmi and I've got the same problem... GShutdown work properly sometimes but usualy not. It close the session instead of shuting-down...

[heethen (heethen)]

Got the same problem, gonna give it more testing, but it seems that gshutdown does not properly shutdown computer (just session) only when Im running a video player (Kaffeine). As I said, Im going to test some more and let you know, maybe it will be helpful. (And just to let you know, Im getting same error messages when runnning GShutdown from terminal as JohnSchoffstall)

Running:
Ubuntu Hardy
GShutdown 0.2 (After a delay, auto detect method)

[Maxime Chéramy (maxime81)]

The problem will be solved with the next release. Don't ask me when, I don't know. We're late.

If you know what you're doing, you can safely take the sources from our svn : svn co svn://svn.tuxfamily.org/svnroot/gshutdown/gshutdown
And compile it (./autogen.sh maybe twice and make && sudo make install)
We've add a new mechanism using dbus to shutdown the computer. It should work (at least it works on my computer running ubuntu 8.04).

Else you have 2 options :
- Configure your sudo to allow shutdown to be run as root without typing a password. And then configure gshutdown to use this custom command : sudo shutdown -h now

- Run gshutdown as root (gksu gshutdown) and configure gshutdown to use the custom command : shutdown -h now

This should work with any window and desktop manager.

Obviously, if you use the development version, please report any bugs.

[rocknrollme (rocknrollme)]

I can confirm this behavior on my laptop running Hardy.

[Stefan (comesayhi)]

I'm having the same problem

[Stefan (comesayhi)]

Just uninstall and reinstall
Then it works

[gerard (zzking)]

seems OK now with the latest updates

[gerard (zzking)]

problems getting even worse on Karmic:

because if I want to shut down after a timer, I don't shutdown, I only close the session

[gada3one (yousef-shihadeh)]

problem persists on Karmic...

[LCC (lcc1211)]

I tried running gksu shutdown but it can't determine my settings. I supplied GNOME & GDM & then used custom command sudo shutdown -h, but instead of shutting down, I got a reboot. Before this it was just closing the current session.

Using a Dell Inspiron 1525 with Karmic 64.

[Jon Arnold (jonarnoldsemail)]

This is still an issue on Lucid. When trying to shutdown, gshutdown logs out instead.

[Stefan (comesayhi)]

just use

sudo shutdown

in the terminal

[loeppel (loeppel)]

The logout behaviour is not only a problem of gshutdown.

Try this:
1. Open a terminal (e.g. gnome-terminal)
2. Enter: sudo shutdown -h +10 (means: Shutdown in 10 minutes)
3. Now use the indicator-applet (usename in the upper right of the screen) to reboot or shutdown
4. You'll see the login (gdmv2) screen

So i think there is something wrong with the whole shutdown thing in GDMv2 ?! Verified with 9.10 (karmic) and 10.04 LTS Beta 2 (with fresh updates [as of 12. Apr 2010])!

Anyone ideas how to debug this situation? Don't know how the Display-Manager shutdown actions work.

Telling the people they should use "sudo shutdown" isn't very helpful!

[The_Great_Bunghole (the-great-bunghole)]

G-Shutdown used to work perfectly for me on 9.04, but on 9.10 it stopped working correctly. It just ends the session, and stays on and idle at GDM login screen. I am pretty sure this has something to do with the new way of logging in. I just used "loeppel" 's instructions.... and hopefully it will work, and if it does, I will use this from now on.