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

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Nov 26 21:56:34 UTC 2008



On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Steve Grubb wrote:

> On Wednesday 26 November 2008 15:44:47 Seth Vidal wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> The restart/shutdown buttons aren't at the bottom of the login box in gdm?
>
> Yep they sure are. Clicking on it says it can't shutdown. Try it.

worked for me on the live image.

-sv





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