Comment 56 for bug 838792

Hi,

Sounds like you are able to do more things. I do have anything. Can only get my home folder and get online by pressing F3 for home folder, then Help and click on 'Get Help Online' in order to get the web browser up so I can do things online. Otherwise I have nothing. Hope to Download Ubuntu when I have the time. That should fix my problem, I hope. Will let everyone know if I succeed.

Margaret

> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:34:21 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 838792] Re: "Restart" logs out, even when there are no other people logged in
>
> Same with me Ubuntu 12.10. Following some updates Restart and Shut down
> from the graphic interface no longer work bringing up to the login
> screen. I have several graphic interfaces and they all fail - Unity,
> Gnome Shell, xfce and lxde. You go to the login screen when you select
> Power Off or Restart from the graphic menu. On the login screen these
> options do nothing. Terminal "sudo poweroff" and "sudo reboot" commands
> both work fine, but it is rather disturbing having to open a terminal
> and type my password each time I want to turn off or reboot my machine.
> None of the suggestions in this thread worked for me.
>
> This issue seems to persist in Ubuntu for more than a year now. Anyone
> having any ideas how to fix it? I can't believe it doesn't bug you
> having to power off using the terminal every time. It should be noted
> that it worked initially on 12.10 and got broken only following an
> upgrade,
>
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>
> Title:
> "Restart" logs out, even when there are no other people logged in
>
> Status in The Session Menu:
> Invalid
> Status in Unity Foundations:
> Invalid
> Status in “gnome-session” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Trying to restart the computer from within a unity session causes the
> session to log out, instead of actually restarting the computer.
>
> 1. Boot up oneiric
> 2. Log in
> 3. Click on the Power button obscured by a tiny gear on the top and far right of the screen
> 4. Click "Shutdown..."
> 5. When asked, "Are you sure you want to close all programs and shut down the computer?", select "Restart" (it's on the bottom left of the dialog)
>
> Instead of restarting, you will be logged out.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
> Package: indicator-session 0.3.3.2-0ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.15-generic 3.0.3
> Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Thu Sep 1 13:52:22 2011
> EcryptfsInUse: Yes
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: indicator-session
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-26 (37 days ago)
>
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