GDM missing half of it's menu, no way to shutdown except with the command line

[Garoth]

Binary package hint: gdm

I am running Dapper, pre release, upgraded from breezy through apt.

The GDM is missing half of it's menu, including shutdown

Gnome is also missing the ability to shutdown.

If I find that I cannot attatch images, please e-mail me to get them - garoth at gmail dot com.

This error happened after I updated my system and it occured upon restarting my computer. I have a 3 year oldish pentium 4 based system.

Note: The images are really the most important part.

[Garoth (garoth)]

Some more: there is also no shutdown button under system... so no shutdown in the main window, gdm, or the toolbar. I have to use the command line.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. The actions are to the session dialog, you can open that dialog from the system menu. You can attach images using the left frame of the bug page, there is an "Add Attachment" label, click on it

When did you update? Did you get that issue before or is that new since an upgrade? What does "gdmflexiserver -a -c QUERY_LOGOUT_ACTION" write on a command line?

[Garoth (garoth)]

As you can see in this image, there is no obvious way to shutdown your computer.

[Garoth (garoth)]

This is a picture of my gdm, without the necessary parts like shutdown

[Garoth (garoth)]

The images have been uploaded.

This happened a week or two ago, and I update daily.

The output of that command is:

(process:8244): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2215: initialization assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this function

(process:8244): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_display_get_name: assertion `GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed
OK

[Garoth (garoth)]

Oh, I'm sorry (I hate making all these revisions):

For the second image, "GDM without inportant option," the "exit" option is only there while I'm running the login in a nested window. If I were to just start up my computer, it's not there.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

no problem, thank you for working on that

Do you have powermanagement-interface installed?

[Garoth (garoth)]

Yep, I have the powermanagement-interface, and I didn't just install it manually, so I'm assuming that it's always been there:

garoth@deepthought:~$ apt-cache show powermanagement-interface
Package: powermanagement-interface
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 84
Maintainer: Thom May <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.3.11
Depends: acpi-support (>= 0.17)
Filename: pool/main/p/powermanagement-interface/powermanagement-interface_0.3.11_i386.deb
Size: 10586
MD5sum: f5547abd145f8dab0e03c9d28232a1fd
Description: platform neutral powermanagement interface
 Provides an abstracted layer above the platform specific power management
 interfaces, with a consistent API so that higher level tools can interact
 with those interfaces.
Bugs: mailto:<email address hidden>
Origin: Ubuntu
Task: ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you still have that issue?

[Garoth (garoth)]

Yes, I still have the GDM/No Shutdown Issue - but I am getting pretty good with shutting down my computer with command line ; )

I at first thought that someone would sort it out after a little while, and that it would organically fix itself, but I suppose not, at least not for a while.

Do you at all have any idea what/who is responsable for what may be at the root cause: like the power management project or the part of Gnome which is responsable for the shutting down? If you give me the name I can go "complain and be useless" there. : )

[Nikos Asimakis (nikos-asimakis)]

Have you hand-edited your /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom file?

I had and have left one section incomplete and had the exact same problem. When I deleted that file and did a "/etc/init.d/gdm restart" the shutdown and restart buttons reappeared.

You can also just reinstall the gdm package which will overwrite your gdm.conf-custom file with the default.

[Garoth (garoth)]

The thing is that I hadn't changed a thing. However, what I eventually did
was dpkg --reconfigure gdm, which worked perfectly.

On 8/3/06, Nikos Asimakis <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Have you hand-edited your /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom file?
>
> I had and have left one section incomplete and had the exact same
> problem. When I deleted that file and did a "/etc/init.d/gdm restart"
> the shutdown and restart buttons reappeared.
>
> You can also just reinstall the gdm package which will overwrite your
> gdm.conf-custom file with the default.
>
> --
> GDM missing half of it's menu, no way to shutdown except with the command
> line
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/45320
>

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Does that mean it works now?

[Garoth (garoth)]

Yes. However, it's not an end-user fix, but I suppose that it's probably
a rare bug that won't come up again.

-AT

Daniel Holbach wrote:
> Does that mean it works now?
>
>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Closing the bug since that works fine now. That was probably an user configuration option like "SystemMenu=false" being used. Feel free to reopen with /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and /etc/gdm/gdm-custom.conf attached (feel free to replace private datas by random chars by example) if you get the issue again