Comment 12 for bug 45320

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Garoth (garoth) wrote : Re: [Bug 45320] Re: GDM missing half of it's menu, no way to shutdown except with the command line

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
>