GNOME-Session and upcoming PowerManager breaks Reboot/Shutdown

[Martin]

The gnome-pm in the upcoming gnome release no longer supports shutdown() and reboot(). This is now managed by consolekit. I added a bzr diff that uses the ConsoleKit System service to shutdown and reboot.
Not sure how consolekit can be accessed differently (pam/per user daemon) haven't digged into that a lot.

Cheers
Martin

[Chris S. (cszikszoy)]

Thanks for the patch Martin. I'll take a look and try to get this in by 0.8.2.

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

Ok, running this basically just locks up my machine and doesn't reboot on Jaunty. Did you test this?

[Martin (schanzen)]

I use it every day since I posted this.

Versions:
ck: 0.3.0
g-p-m: 2.26.1
kernel: 2.6.29
do: 0.8.1.3 + the above patches

I do not use ubuntu though and from what I've seen there are various ways to use ck ( system daemon, user daemon, pam etc). But any of them seem unlikely to cause lockups.
When I get the time I can test it on Fedora (VM) and see what happens...

[Martin (schanzen)]

Okay I just tested this in my VM (most recent Fedora 11 RC). Works just fine. Not a lot of code in the patch so the cause seems to be either ubuntu or ck related.

- Martin

[Chris S. (cszikszoy)]

I've had time to test this on both Intrepid and Jaunty, and it works flawlessly on both.