Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 498620
shutdown/reboot from logged in session does not work
Last modified: 2010-06-28 08:18:44 EDT
Description of problem: I have a feeling this is probably a duplicate since I see a lot of complaints about it, but I can't quite find an existing bugzilla that doesn't read like a slightly different problem. What I see is: I'm logged into a gnome session as an ordinary user. I got to the system menu, pick shutdown, then click the Restart button in the dialog that pops up. Sometimes the system will shutdown and reboot, sometimes it won't. When it doesn't, X does go away, I see console messages about the system going down immediately, but it doesn't, it hangs instead. If, at this point, I hit Ctrl-Alt-Del, then the reboot actually proceeds, all the messages from services being stopped scroll past, and the system reboots. At least once when the system did go ahead and reboot, I found the root filesystem got fsck errors and had to do the recovering journal and clearing orphan inode thing (this is ext3). So apparently when it shutdown it didn't manage to cleanly shutdown. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Hard to guess which component since I'm merely starting this from the gnome menu, but I don't know that gnome is at fault. However, the most recent gnome desktop update is: gnome-desktop-2.26.1-4.fc11.x86_64 kernel-2.6.29.1-111.fc11.x86_64 How reproducible: Most of the time I get the hang, but not always. The unclean filesystem only happened once so far. Steps to Reproduce: 1.see above 2. 3. Actual results: Hangs rather than completing the reboot process Expected results: Reboots Additional info: If I just type "reboot" in a terminal, that always seems to work OK, which is why I suspect gnome is involved somehow. Typing reboot behind gnome's back does tend to get gnome really excited and popup lots of unexpected shutdown dialog boxes while X is still there to show them.
Hello, I have exactly the same problem. I use an Athlon XP (i586), F11 Preview Gnome LiveCD x86 (updated). The packages used are : - gnome-desktop-2.26.1-4.fc11.i586 - kernel-2.6.29.1-111.fc11.i586 But in my case, I don't remember to have issues with the filesystem (ext4).
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