GDM refuses to shutdown.

[Nick Date]

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 22:53 +0100, Nick Date wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Having been through various attempts at fixing this problem on the 
>> forums here http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=12087 I believe 
>> that there may be a bug in GDM/Gnome.
>>
>> Attempts from a 'normal' user to shutdown or restart the system whilst 
>> logged into Gnome (via GDM) cause the xserver to restart and cause the 
>> following message to be displayed in /var/log/messages ...
>>
>> Apr 17 22:11:47 bobby console-kit-daemon[1263]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: 
>> g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
>>
>> Attempts to shut down from the GDM login screen also cause the above 
>> message but the xserver does not restart.
>>
>> - Both the user 'gdm' and login 'gdm' exist. I have tried making the gdm 
>> user a member of both operator and wheel to no avail.
>>
>> - My 'normal' user can shutdown fine from a Terminal by doing a 
>> 'shutdown -p now'
>>
>> - The system shuts down cleanly when the front power button is pressed. 
>> Pressing [CTRL], [ALT] + [DEL] on a console causes a clean reboot.
>>
>> - avahi, hald and dbus are running. gnome is started from rc.conf using 
>> 'gnome_enable="YES"'
>>
>> - /usr/local/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf is as follows ...
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- XML -*- -->
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE pkconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Configuration 
>> 1.0//EN"
>> "http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit/1.0/config.dtd">
>>
>> <!-- See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format -->
>>
>> <config version="0.1">
>>     <match user="root">
>>     <return result="yes"/>
>>     </match>
>>     <define_admin_auth group="wheel"/>
>> </config>
>>
>> - I have tried adding the following to /usr/local/etc/gdm/custom.conf ...
>>
>> [daemon]
>> HaltCommand=/sbin/shutdown -r now
>> RebootCommand=/sbin/shutdown -r now
>>
>> - procfs is mounted on /proc
>>
>>
>> Any help / confirmation of whether this is a bug or just my computer 
>> would be greatly appreciated.
>>     
>
> Force a rebuild/reinstall of sysutils/polkit and sysutils/polickit.
> Reboot, and you should be set.
>
> Joe
>
>   
Joe,

Thank you so much - that worked a treat. I will post a message on the 
forums letting them know that this issue is now resolved so they can 
close the thread.

Thanks again! :)
Nick.