Bug 815671

Summary: gdm-fallback.session: shutdown / restart don't work without ConsoleKit
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Edward Sheldrake <ejsheldrake>
Component: gdmAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Edward Sheldrake 2012-04-24 08:29:25 UTC
Description of problem:
Without ConsoleKit installed, the restart and shutdown menu items in the classic GDM greeter don't work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-3.4.1-1.fc17

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Don't have ConsoleKit installed
2. Configure gdm to use the gdm-fallback session
3. Try the "Restart" or "Shut Down" menu items at the gdm login screen
  
Actual results:
Nothing happens when you try to restart or shut down.

Each attempted restart or shutdown logs to /var/log/messages a line:
gdm-simple-greeter[18870]: CRITICAL: dbus_g_error_get_name: assertion `error->code == DBUS_GERROR_REMOTE_EXCEPTION' failed

Expected results:
Restarts or shuts down the computer.
Or at least don't show the menu items if they won't work.

Additional info:
It used to work before I uninstalled ConsoleKit.

The restart / shutdown code in gui/simple-greeter/gdm-greeter-panel.c appears to just call the Restart or Stop ConsoleKit dbus method - there's no check if ConsoleKit is running, nor if gdm was built with ConsoleKit support, nor anything to shutdown some other way.

Comment 1 Edward Sheldrake 2012-04-24 12:12:03 UTC
Created attachment 579835 [details]
shutdown via gnome-session

Untested patch which is supposed to do a shutdown via gnome-session dbus interface. It should open the shutdown dialog, if it works.

Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2012-04-24 15:40:26 UTC
we should do it via org.freedesktop.login1 interface like the non-fallback greeter does.

mind posting this bug and patch upstream?

Comment 3 Fred Wells 2012-06-02 18:57:13 UTC
The KDE Spin, which apparently, doesn't install Console-Kit by default has this problem when using GDM instead of KDM.  Simply installing Console-Kit remedies this problem.

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