Comment 16 for bug 1582496

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Jindřich Vodrážka (fairf4x) wrote :

Using:

Package: gnome-session
Version: 3.18.1.2-1ubuntu1.16.04.2

on Ubuntu:
# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial

This error is recorded in log when trying to power off or reboot the machine using buttons in main menu (nothing happens). Relevant log record from "journalctl -xe":

zář 05 11:37:16 mrblack gnome-session-binary[2242]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
zář 05 11:37:16 mrblack gnome-session[2242]: gnome-session-binary[2242]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (
zář 05 11:37:16 mrblack gnome-session-binary[2242]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
zář 05 11:37:16 mrblack gnome-session[2242]: gnome-session-binary[2242]: WARNING: Shutdown failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Erro
zář 05 11:37:16 mrblack gnome-session-binary[2242]: WARNING: Shutdown failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InteractiveAuthorizationRequired: Interactive authentication required.

The GDBus.Error is logged every time I try to do shutdown.
Hope this helps.