Comment 4 for bug 242294

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lurk (mmyhal) wrote : Re: [Bug 242294] Re: [hardy] click shutdown and the navigation bars disappear but the desktop stays and no dialogue window pops up.

The bug can be closed. Took me a few days to figure out what the problem
was and I just stumbled upon it.

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Joe Smith <email address hidden> wrote:

> Sweet, so it seems that this works for you now? Can we close this bug?
>
> --
> [hardy] click shutdown and the navigation bars disappear but the desktop
> stays and no dialogue window pops up.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/242294
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>
> Status in "firefox-3.0" source package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in "xorg" source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: xorg
>
> I am running 8.04 Hardy Herron with xorg 1:7.3+10ubuntu10.
>
> This problem only appeared after the last update on the 19th. I have
> preformed every automatic update that has come down the pipe.
>
> When I click the shutdown button, the two navigation bars disappear, the
> shutdown dialogue box does not appear and X continues to run just fine. To
> shutdown I am able to switch login displays to a text one , login and run
> shutdown or reboot with sudo.
>
> I'm not sure if it is related but at the same time Firefox lost all
> it's bookmarks and could not restore a previous session, the navigation
> history still functions just fine.
>
> Also Transmission has lost it's ability to continue a torrent between
> sessions unless it is in the default directory. It can't access the torrent
> status files.
>
> I also had some issues with screen resolution and the settings not
> wanting to apply, but I was also switching monitors for the first time since
> installing Hardy
>
> When I saw all these problems hit, my "windows" instincts kicked in and I
> thought virus. I ran ClamTk Virus Scanner and found four things to
> quarantine. Stuff in etc, some log files, and something else I don't recall.
> Regardless the only thing still in quarantine is a PDF, because of a size
> mismatch and I didn't let any of them out. More to the point nothing
> happened regarding the operation, or lack there of, of the system.
>
> So at the end of my limited knowledge I throw my system wide to you in a
> plea for help. Tell me what you need and I shall strive to provide.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Mon Jun 23 01:39:23 2008
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
> Package: nautilus 1:2.22.3-0ubuntu2
> PackageArchitecture: i386
> ProcEnviron:
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: nautilus
> Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686
>