Todd Myhre wrote:
I've set up gdm on a new laptop but the System menu does not
seem to work correctly. When I try to halt the system, it
simply reloads gdm and the following error messages appear
in my syslog:
gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
gdm_child_action: Reboot or Halt request when there is no
system menu from display :0
Which gdm version are you using?
It happened to me once, when I upgraded gdm; I don't remember correctly,
whether it was potato -> potato/woody or woody -> woody/sid. I found
out that the newer gdm set the "gdm" username to not having the
privilege to shutdown the system. So, I ended up utilizing sudo so that
gdm can do the shutdown. In /etc/gdm/gdm.conf:
RebootCommand=/usr/bin/sudo /sbin/reboot
HaltCommand=/usr/bin/sudo /sbin/poweroff
And, of course, you have to add the gdm username to the sudo entries
file using visudo.
Oki
