Ubuntu
gdm package

Cannot access reboot menu from keyboard

Bug #452681 reported by Luke Schlather
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gdm (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gdm

In previous releases, the shutdown menu was accessible using alt-t, then the underlined letter on the menu. In the latest Karmic, the login screen provides no apparent way to shutdown, reboot, suspend, or hibernate using only the keyboard.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 15 20:58:27 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gdm 2.28.0-0ubuntu19
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: gdm
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2138): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2138): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed

Revision history for this message
Luke Schlather (luke2760) wrote :
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
importance: Undecided → Low
Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
assignee: Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) → nobody
Revision history for this message
Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Oneiric Ocelot. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Lachezar Dobrev (lachezar) wrote :

It was hard to make an ocelot installation without mangling my current configuration.
The gdm log-in screen is not available in an Live-USB or Live-CD environment.

I can confirm, that there is no (easy) way to access the shut-down/restart menu with the ocelot's gdm theme.
There is an awful work-around by using CTRL-ALT-TAB to switch to the panel, and possibly navigate using tab and navigation keys in order to focus the power button.

Lachezar Dobrev (lachezar)
Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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