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#15 Cinnamon Shutdown Issue

witchOS-next
closed
2018-08-15
2018-08-12
saleem
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Recently noticed that witchOS on Cinnamon desktop won`t shutdown on pressing power off button and the only way to shutdown system is issue command 'sudo poweroff -f'
in terminal .

Discussion

  • Melanie Genz

    Melanie Genz - 2018-08-12

    Confirmed the problem.
    As a workaround i disabled logind for the cinnamon session manager.
    The logout dialog is not working though but you can logoff and power down via your display manager.

    I will investigate further

     
  • Melanie Genz

    Melanie Genz - 2018-08-12
    • status: open --> accepted
     
  • Melanie Genz

    Melanie Genz - 2018-08-14

    Seems the culprit was the glib2 update.
    I reverted it and recompiled pulseaudio, gtk3 and cinnamon.
    It now works again.
    Can you confirm that?

     
  • Melanie Genz

    Melanie Genz - 2018-08-14
    • status: accepted --> pending
     
  • saleem

    saleem - 2018-08-14

    Done, though initially system refused to boot , faced black screen of death , frozen mouse, system freeze , but once I could login to Cinnamon desktop , both reboot and shut down functions were back to normal .

     
  • Melanie Genz

    Melanie Genz - 2018-08-15
    • status: pending --> closed
     

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