No way to shut down from, gdm in F-10

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Nov 26 20:52:53 UTC 2008


Steve Grubb (sgrubb at redhat.com) said: 
> I booted F-10 up into run level 3. Logged in as root. Did some things and ran 
> init 5. After I was done using the computer, I wanted to shut it down. There 
> is absolutely nothing that I can click on that will let me shutdown the 
> computer. (Try it.) What I ended up doing is logging in and opening a terminal 
> and typing poweroff, but I don't think that is the right way for a gdm session 
> to end. 
> 
> Why are we doing it like this?

It's handled via ConsoleKit - is it running? Is it functioning correctly?

Bill




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