Shutdown and Log Out actions don't work

[Mihail]

Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver

Shutdown/Log Out actions (for example Lock Screen, Suspend, Restart, Shutdown) sometimes just stop working. For example, I can not suspend my laptop neither via indicator-applet-session nor via assigned keys. No errors or warnings are displayed, nothing happens. Workaround is very simple:

 $ gnome-screensaver
 ** (gnome-screensaver:19099): WARNING **: screensaver already running in this session

After that I can lock screen, suspend, log out, etc.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 18 15:41:55 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027.1)
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: gnome-screensaver 2.28.0-0ubuntu3.5
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-screensaver
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic x86_64

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:
1. Is this reproducible?
2. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as detailed as possible.
This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Mihail (mikhail.lukin)]

Unfortunately, this is not reproducible. I tried everything to reproduce it, tried to repeat all the actions in exact order, but nothing worked. I'm sorry.

[pinzia (pinzia)]

similar problem? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-session/+bug/566104

[Mihail (mikhail.lukin)]

Not really. In my case dialog does not appear.

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

A lot of reliability fixes went into Lucid and Maverick to fix this type of issue. Are you still able to reproduce this issue with Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick)?

[Mihail (mikhail.lukin)]

No, I'm not able to reproduce it anymore, thanks.

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks, as per your last comment, I am closing this bug. Feel free to open a new one if the issue comes back. Thanks!