Unable to shutdown and restart, logs out instead
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
On some occasions when I boot the computer, the restart and shutdown options do not work. When selecting them in the indicator applet, it just logs out. When I delete the indicator applet, there is no shutdown or restart option in the System menu. I need to shutdown using the terminal. Other symptoms are also present, such as the audio not working and being unable to "unlock" any of the configuration applets notably "login screen".
As far as I know the problem is seemingly random and Ubuntu 10.04 most of the times boots up flawlessly (none of these problems present). This problem was not present in previous version of Ubuntu on this hardware configuration. This is a clean install of 10.04.
the sound problem can be solved by adding your login to the audio group :
sudo adduser your_login audio
I didn't havfe the issue by installing ubuntu from the install DVD, but as soon as I install some updates, I'm affected as well (I reinstalled my computer several times to clarify the symptons)
I think it has something to do with permissions, both the audio & the shutdown problem. Another symptom I see, is that all options are grayed out in "System - Administration - Login Screen".