[SOLVED] XFCE Reboot/restart

hobgoblin · #1 14th April 2011, 05:52 PM

Running a clean install of XFCE F15 if I reboot it just appears to logout and goes to the login screen.

Not at all sure if this is normal - I'm used to gnome.

No such issue with the F15 gnome nor the F14 gnome.

If it's just that I've not set something up correctly - sorry, but how would I unset it

On the plus side a recent convert from Ubuntu is happy all in all.

PabloTwo · #2 14th April 2011, 05:59 PM

In XFCE, this behavior is normal. When you get back to the log on screen, just mouse click the icon in the bar at bottom right hand corner of the screen to choose your "reboot" and "shutdown" options.

**AdamW** · #3 14th April 2011, 06:29 PM

erm, really? I'm not sure that's correct; if Xfce isn't capable of triggering a reboot directly it shouldn't expose an interface option named 'reboot', it should only have one named 'logout'. I'd call this a bug. I'll check in with the Xfce devs to be sure.

hobgoblin · #4 14th April 2011, 06:34 PM

Thanks both.

Piscium · #5 14th April 2011, 09:07 PM

Yes, it is a bug, and I also encountered it last weekend when I installed F15 from Beta RC2.

Unfortunately I have not had time yet to file a bug report or search if anybody has reported it. So if anybody files a bug report please post the link.

Update:

I have now reported the bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696796

hobgoblin · #6 15th April 2011, 11:44 AM

Followed the bug - installed gdm and set as display manager.

Rebooted and logged in through that.

Still showing the same issue here regardless of display manager.

Piscium · #7 15th April 2011, 11:07 PM

Interesting. I have no clue why you are getting different results from me as you seem to have followed the same procedure as I.

I am using the 32 bits OS version, and I am up-to-date on F15 (yum update). What about you?

Obviously hardware differences are always a possibility. I have not installed any package that I would consider likely to have a bearing on this.

hobgoblin · #8 16th April 2011, 09:45 AM

Up to date - 64bit

I'd too not think that anything I've installed would likely have any bearing on it.

Luckily, while I might be new to fedora I'm not new to linux so at least I can get my head around the oddness

Edit - appears I'm seeing the same behaviour as you.

"I have done further tests and sometimes the Restart button in GDM does restart
and sometimes it just logs out. "

Piscium · #9 17th April 2011, 09:17 AM

Apparently the issue was caused by SELinux, and fixed two days ago:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695818

So after updating your system, has the issue gone away for you?

To be honest I am not yet totally convinced this is SELinux related, I would think it more likely to be related to the wheel group, but I don't have much Linux experience so don't want to spend too much time on this.

hobgoblin · #10 17th April 2011, 09:39 AM

Not updated just yet - got some thing going on with an update error.

Not been about long enough to get to the bottom of that and as it's a sunday I'm off doing something other than worry about an OS

Will post an update once I have one - thanks

#11 17th April 2011, 09:55 AM

dunno if its a wise idea to update just yet, i hope you have KDE installed or some other WM incase XFCE or something else goes to *****

hobgoblin · #12 17th April 2011, 11:26 AM

I've turned off the test-update repos now. I assume I've got them set up right - perhaps someone would be good enough to have a look at the attachment.

I'll wait for a while till I play with that.

Quote:

i hope you have KDE installed or some other WM incase XFCE or something else goes to *****

I'd boot the gnome3 or f14 if that was the case

I must say that after years of doing things one way with .debs this is making me a bit

but hey ho it'll be good in the end

#13 17th April 2011, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by hobgoblin

I've turned off the test-update repos now. I assume I've got them set up right - perhaps someone would be good enough to have a look at the attachment.

I'll wait for a while till I play with that.

I'd boot the gnome3 or f14 if that was the case

I must say that after years of doing things one way with .debs this is making me a bit

but hey ho it'll be good in the end

problem with disabling updates-testing sometimes packages will be needed from the updates-testing tepo when you actually download or chosen just the updates

hobgoblin · #14 17th April 2011, 11:45 AM

Ok - I'll turn them on again

I do assume I'm right not to use the rawhide ones .

Thanks detox.

#15 17th April 2011, 11:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hobgoblin

Ok - I'll turn them on again

I do assume I'm right not to use the rawhide ones .

Thanks detox.

dont use rawhide unless you fancy getting F16 RPM's in F15 stable

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rawhide is very unstable