Can not shut down or reboot in GNOME 3.8.4/Jessie
Hey guys,
This started a few weeks back with an update but I'm just getting to posting now, so unfortunately I don't remember exactly what was updated. I'm running GNOME 3.8.4 with Jessie. A few things broke (like not being able to run Terminal because of a non-UTF8 locale issue not being handled graciously by the terminal devs and GNOME 3 not honoring system wide locales), but I can't fix this one. If I select Power Off from the user menu, the hard drive will flash for a second or two, then do nothing. I can still run programs normally, except on some applications (mostly GTK+ 2, and some GTK+ 3 programs), themes are broken. If I select Power Off from the user menu, or run the following in a terminal: Code:
$ gnome-session-quit --power-off Now, I'll try again (or if I selected Power Off the first time, I now open a terminal), Code:
$ gnome-session-quit --power-off Code:
$ sudo halt Any ideas? |
The current version for gnome in Jessie is 3.8+6 and not 3.8+4. You might try updating gnome to the current version and see if that sorts out your problem. Be sure you run apt-get or aptitude update before installing the package to make sure you have the most recent version. Watch carefully for any error messages or any news of broken pages.
jdk |
Thank you for your response jdkaye,
I did, last night, and no GNOME packages were updated, and nothing in GNOME being held back. Tried again now, as well. I guess I'll have to start there as to why I'm not getting the latest packages. All I'e got in sources.list are the US debian repos for jessie/testing, with no third party repos to cause conflicts. Hmmm... Code:
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free Well, silly me, I got my version information from the GNOME Settings tools under "details" as it was the laziest way to do it. Using apt-cache and checking version numbers shows the package gnome and gnome-core are 3.8+6. gnome-desktop3-data is 3.8.4-2, and apt-cache policy indicates that is the newest candidate available. gnome-shell is 3.8.4-8+b1 (newest candidate). |
Can you post the output of this command:
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aptitude show gnome |
Sure.
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$ aptitude show gnome |
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sudo aptitude reinstall gnome jdk |
I have 2 system Jessie & Sid neither of them shutdown without running command from terminal. Also I've been complaining about GTK bug, which affects changes to main menu, for a while.
I ran across 1 supposed solution that told me to delete the /home/user/.config/menus file, which I did & it hasn't changed anything. |
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I stated in my previous post, the package itself is in fact 3.8+6, but something else is amiss here as GNOME itself (System Settings -> Details) shows 3.8.4. I tried your suggestion, the only package reinstalled was gnome, with version 3.8+6 and no errors. Code:
$ sudo aptitude reinstall gnome |
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$ ps aux|grep systemd |
Before clicking Power Off from the user menu:
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$ ps aux | grep systemd Code:
~ $ ps aux | grep systemd Code:
$ aptitude show systemd |
Well systemd is installed and enabled on your system so one would think that gnome should be shutting down and rebooting normally. Ensure your system is completely up to date and consider reporting a bug.
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Hello
exactly the same problem over here. No way to reboot unless a reboot command from a root terminal, no way to shutdown or logout either. It is a new install done with netinst cd jessie. Another laptop installed a few weeks ago is performing fine so I have no idea what happened this time. XFCE was installed by default but I completely removed it (and lightdm) I put on a bug for gnome-shell (750058) as I was unsure which package was affected... |
Don't you enjoy spending hours/days trying to fix yet another
non-backwardly-compatible forced change that interrupts your work ? I believe your troubles are related to Debian Testing not completely switching to systemd yet. https://wiki.debian.org/systemd From the Wiki; Code:
To install systemd run: But...... all kinds of other system irregularities spring up. Your mileage may vary. If you're lucky and you like what you see, you can switch over to systemd full on. If you would like an icon available to use that will shutdown with the 'halt' command, 1. Create a file as root, e.g. nano halt.desktop. Point to whichever icon you want. Code:
[Desktop Entry] $ mv halt.deskop /usr/share/applications 3. Logout, Login 4. Use your new halt by adding it to the favorites gnome-shell dock. Poweroff garaunteed. Good Luck.:D Regards. |
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