Since FC5 and FC6 there is no clean way to shutdown the computer from gnome when on runlevel 3. When Fedora is on runlevel 3 - the power off icon does not work. I managed to put it there by switching to runlevel 5, but when X is started as startx it also does not work. This is very annoying. Suspend/resume is often broken and not what most people want. This is just a disgrace of Fedora - people can not power off the computer and write stupid scripts(executing poweroff command) to shutdown. (search the internet for this)
So this is probably because gnome-session (in gnome 2.14) and the panel (in gnome 2.16) have switched to asking gdm to do the shut down. We should probably fallback to the old way if gdm isn't running.
Please fix this. This is extremely annoying now, people just can not turn the computer off
I agree it should be fixed (as I mentioned in comment 1), but note this only affects users who start at runlevel 3. This means that the user started their session from the command prompt. In the same way, they can just as easily stop there session from the command prompt. any of: poweroff halt shutdown -h now init 0 should work. or by tapping the atx power button on the front of the computer case (which should trigger a shutdown i believe) or by pressing ctrl-alt-delete and shutting off after the reboot.
To some extend I agree, but from the mentioned options: shutdown work only for super user halt brings the computer to the state it does not react to power button at al, the only way tu turn off the power then - unplug the cable. init 0 work only for root atx power button switches to init 0 only on 1 out of 2 computers I have, on the remaining PC it just turns of power without init 0. (Same problem was with the first one, but after doing some random BIOS settings changes I manged to get the first one to properly react on power button. The real option which left is poweroff and from gnome-session
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Same thing in F8: there is no clean way to shutdown the computer from gnome when on runlevel 3.
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