Restart and shutdown dead

[Langjan]

The restart and shutdown options on my Ubuntu 10.10 do not work. The only option that is operating is "suspend". It was the same with 10.04 before upgrading. I was hoping the upgrade will help but no luck. Any suggestions?

[sgosnell]

Exactly what does "do not work" mean? What are you doing, and what is the result? What happens if you run "sudo shutdown now" in a terminal?

[Langjan]

When I run sudo reboot or shutdown in the terminal it works fine, it is the restart and shutdown command in the dropdown menu when I click on the control icon that does not work.

[sgosnell]

Something in the settings may have been corrupted. Try removing the shutdown icon from the panel, and readding it.

[Langjan]

Worth a try, I did that but it made no difference.

[sgosnell]

Can you shut down and restart from the System menu?

Do you get the shutdown and restart options from Ctrl-Alt-Del?

Some googling indicates that gnome-power-manager has to be running in order for the options to show up in the panel. Try running that at startup and see if it helps.

[Langjan]

No, the only option that works from the menu is "suspend" I have to use the terminal or the power button to shut down and restart.

[sgosnell]

Run gnome-power-manager and see if it works.

[Langjan]

Thanks, here's the outcome: jan@jan-desktop:~$ gnome-power-manager
TI:08:19:42 TH:0x9a718b8 FI:gpm-main.c FN:main,250
- Power Manager is already running in this session.
Traceback:
gnome-power-manager() [0x806274b]
gnome-power-manager() [0x8055ee2]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7) [0xa09ce7]
gnome-power-manager() [0x804dc91]
jan@jan-desktop:~$

The problem persists.