Description of problem: Ther eis no way to shutdown or reboot the system from gdm Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.1.90-1 How reproducible: Always. Start system, gdm comes up. There is no way to shutdown or reboot from the gdm login screen. Steps to Reproduce: 1. start system 2. gdm starts 3. no shutdown or reboot Actual results: There is no shutdown or reboot from the gdm login screen Expected results: For there to be a way to shutdown or reboot from the gdm login screen Additional info: With the crazy mixed up idea that a user must log out to be able to shutdown their system that was introduced in Gnome 3, The ability to shutdown or reboot from the gdm screen is a MUST. With no shutdown in the Gnome 3 shell menu, and no shutdown in gdm, Ther eis now no noticable way to shutdown the system.
Tracked upstream here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657364
Are you sure about that gnome bug report? It appears that one is related to the gnome-settings-daemon crashing when selecting background, not shutdown/reboot being missing from gdm.
Link in comment 1 really doesn't seem to be related. Reopening this. I can confirm that restart/poweroff options are missing in gdm 3.1.90 and 3.1.92 running in "gnome-shell mode" (3D accelerated). However, when I run it in KVM (fallback mode), gdm *contains* reboot/poweroff options.
Proposing as a blocker, Gnome 3 in accelerated mode now offers no option to reboot, and we shouldn't push that to our users.
This needs to be an -option-. For instance, at work, I don't want people to walk up to my workstation and randomly shut it down as it is a multi-user machine while no one is logged into the console, it doesn't mean the machine is being used remotely. And quite frankly any random person shouldn't be allowed access to shutoff the machine. At home, it is handy only because accelerated gnome isn't offering a shutdown option for a --logged-- user.
gdm 3.1.92 _does_ have restart/suspend/power off options, in both fallback and regular mode.
Created attachment 524455 [details] yum update log Soooo. When I installed gdm 3.1.92 manually, it doesn't have those options. 3.1.90 neither. But when I updated my system to latest updates-testing, that options appeared. I don't know which package caused that, attaching the transaction log. I can try to downgrade some suspected packages to pinpoint the correct one, just tell me your suggestions.
I don't think there's any need for extended forensics here. Just enjoy your new button :-)
well, there is a need for extended forensics to some degree. we need to be sure that the combination of gdm 3.1.92 plus whatever else is in beta has working PM options in both Shell and fallback cases, and also live. As long as that's the case, then we're okay, but we should make sure that's the case. I'll try and test this today.
In a live image built with the current planned RC2 package set, including gdm 3.1.92 but no other 3.1.92 stuff, I see shutdown/restart options when booting in a VM - i.e., fallback style - and logging out from the live user's desktop, but not when doing the same thing on bare metal and getting the Shell. Will check post-install situation soon.
Discussed in the 2011-09-23 blocker review meeting. Rejected as a Fedora 16 beta blocker because even though it does violate the beta release criteria [1], the only possible fix is to pull in gnome-shell-2.1.92 which is a little big to be re-testing this close to beta release.
I would actually argue that it doesn't violate the criteria. The relevant criterion is: "All release-blocking desktops' offered mechanisms (if any) for shutting down, logging out and rebooting must work " In this case, no mechanisms are offered. We don't actually require mechanisms to be offered.
(In reply to comment #11) > Discussed in the 2011-09-23 blocker review meeting. Rejected as a Fedora 16 > beta blocker because even though it does violate the beta release criteria [1], > the only possible fix is to pull in gnome-shell-2.1.92 which is a little big to > be re-testing this close to beta release. Your formulation sounds like "it is considered a blocker, but we can't solve it for beta". Does it make sense to propose it as a final blocker then? (In reply to comment #12) > I would actually argue that it doesn't violate the criteria. The relevant > criterion is: > > "All release-blocking desktops' offered mechanisms (if any) for shutting down, > logging out and rebooting must work " > > In this case, no mechanisms are offered. We don't actually require mechanisms > to be offered. It doesn't violate the criteria directly, yes, but that doesn't mean it can't be a blocker, right? The criteria can't describe all possibilities. In this case I believe it should be a blocker, because 1) the gnome developers says the reboot option should be present (i.e. it's not intentional) 2) no other user friendly way to reboot is available. Hopefully this will get solved once all updates from updates-testing are pushed into stable.
"Hopefully this will get solved once all updates from updates-testing are pushed into stable." Yes, it will. "It doesn't violate the criteria directly, yes, but that doesn't mean it can't be a blocker, right? The criteria can't describe all possibilities." Yes, we can always propose new criteria if we think they're warranted. In this case we could propose a criterion like "the login manager must offer shutdown / reboot options" or whatever.
take it off the blocker list, re-assign to gnome-shell, set ON_QA.
It appears that this bug has been fixed for me. At least the options have returned on the GDM login screen have returned. I am not going to update the status on this bug since there are several things going on here, so I will leave it up to someone else to decide if it should be closed or not.
Fixed long time ago.