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gnome-session package

  1. Bug #51227 (kritsanai)
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 51227

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Phil Borman (phil-borman) wrote : Re: [Bug 51227] Re: cannot restart, logout,shutdown

Mathieu Pillard wrote:
> I had this problem once when the lookback interface wasn't up for some reason. Just in case it's your problem here, here is a quick list of things to check:
> * ping 127.0.0.1
> * ping yourhostname
> * ifconfig -a | grep "UP LOOPBACK RUNNING"
>
> If any of these fail, or don't show a result, you have a problem. Check
> your /etc/hosts file (is your hostname correctly setup there if it needs
> to?), check your /etc/network/interfaces (got a "lo" entry? is it set to
> "auto" and "inet loopback" ?)
>
> Also, another symptom will be that stracing "gnome-session-save --kill"
> will block on some network stuff with 127.0.0.1 or something similar.
>
>
 Thanks for the response.

The problem seems to be mythfrontend. If that program is running then
shutdown fails. If I kill mythfrontend first it all works properly.

I've downloaded the sourcecode to mythfrontend to try and see if it does
anything unusual, but no joy so far.

Phil.