After upgrading to Lucid Lynx, power button won't shut the computer down

[Runa]

Binary package hint: indicator-applet

After upgrading to Lucid Lynx 10.04, the power button on the indicator applet won't shut the computer down. I always have to switch to a terminal and init 0 to shut down. This happens without fail.

The options "hibernate" and "suspend" are missing from the applet menu in those cases where the "shutdown" and "restart" options of the applet menu do not shutdown or restart the system but just do a logout from the X session.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: indicator-applet 0.3.6-0ubuntu2, also v0.3.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686, also 2.6.32-23-generic
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 6 07:28:40 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-applet (indicator-applet-session, indicator-applet complete)

[Runa (arundhati-bakshi)]

I also notice that the icons on the indicator applet seem to randomly disappear. This happens most frequently with the network-manager applet.

[Cliff1000000 (cliff1000000)]

This bug is affecting me as well.
When I click shutdown it takes me back to the log in screen.
I need to completely restart my computer several times in order to get my sound working which is another bug altogether.

[Nathalie Oldenburg (oldnat)]

"(=!%"!)"!% my text has gone. I have to retype the whole. Grunt. And sorry for the empty post up there.

So here it goes again:

I have same behavior on my 32 bit intel machine, upgraded in the timeline slowly, chain from gutsy upwards up to lucid. Sometimes the power button dropdown menu has also hibernate and sleep in ti, then it also works. Sometimes not, just shutdown and restart, then it does not work, either menu item just restarts X. In this case the powerbutton down right also does not work. I have to relogin, open term and sudo a shutdown with halt to get the box down.

I never have this on my other box (amd64, installed karmic and upgraded to lucid). There it always works.

Maybe this is a consequence of dropping HAL Support? Anyway very annoying, and also distrusting then if something is broken then it gets fixed, but if something is times ok and times broken, it makes me distrust in the whole system.

Thanks, Nathalie

[Tim Eisenhower (tae1958)]

This bug affects me on my Acer Aspire 3620 Laptop. The issue doesn't occur if I only boot the laptop momentarily. For instance, just to perform a quick email check then power off.

[wmccuen (billy-capthecost)]

I had same issue in 64-bit version of Karmic. Did clean install of Lucid Lynx and all worked fine until I had to switch screen resolutions temporarily. Now when logged into desktop the indicator-panel icons display, but nothing seems to work. Evolution and empathy do not open; Locale is unable to be added; shutdown/restart do nothing. If I VNC into desktop :1 using vnc4server, I am able to shutdown/restart and open Evolution. Still not able to add locale to Time/Weather. I tried to reinstall the indicator-applet and gnome-panel but this has done nothing to reoslve the issue for me. I really do not want to have to reinstall Lucid completely just to resolve this issue, but it's disconcerting not being able to shutdown/restart without opening terminal or VNC session.

[Alexander Khutornoy (sanya5791)]

Same bug is boring me as well on laptop HP 2510p.
Sometimes power key works in th right way, sometimes no.

[traverlaw (david-traverlaw)]

Same problem showed up after several weeks of no prior problem with Lucid. Now it is a problem with Lucid using Gnome 2.30.0 Kernel 2.6.32-22-generic, (64-bit) AMD Phenom II X2 550 processor. Power button is the only way to shut down, and I have to push it twice.

[Nathalie Oldenburg (oldnat)]

This bug still is marked "New" and "Unassigned" though it is NOT new and higly recommended to assign to someone that something happens.

I hoped the issues goes away with the newer kernel but after more than two months it still affect me and I did not find any solution ant that annoys me very much.

The problem is seemingly not in the kernel and not in the applet (ind-appl-compl does the same as ind-appl-session) but somewhere else. The options "hibernate" and "suspend" are missing in those cases where the "shutdown" and "restart" options of the applet menu do not shutdown or restart but just logout from the X session.

I wonder why nobody cares about this, it is really not the philosophy of "Ubuntu is software that just works". If I can not trust my system behaving always solid in such really ground level things, how should I trust it enough to recommend my company to install Ubuntu Servers in its production instead of the MS servers they have now? For I wished they used Linux instead of MS...

Nathalie

[Timo Karhu (nalle-karhulitos)]

Same here, 10.04 as an upgrade from 9.10. Shutdown does a log off.

[a_flj_ (flj-mail)]

I digged around a bit in the shutdown, reboot and the like scripts - essentially all these commands seem to be different calls to halt.

It seems like under some circumstances the shutdown/reboot scripts get damaged when you install LL on top of KK - this is what happened to me, I think.

A simple fix could be an instruction appended here about how to reinstall these scripts, or an update delivered via the updates mechanism which reinstalls these scripts, maybe even the binaries associated with them.

[Andrew (andrew-1dtv)]

Clean install of lucid 10.04. Ctrl alt del popup buttons all do not work. Panel buttons do not work.

[Andrew (andrew-1dtv)]

My last comment was a bit premature. After a shutdown with init 0, the system works fine thereafter.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you still get the issue? does the buttons in the dialog you get when pressing the power button work or have the same bug

[Nathalie Oldenburg (oldnat)]

Some time after having upgraded to 10.10 the issue vanished, no I do not have the problem. Would be interested in what was the cause though... :-)

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #> and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for indicator-session (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]