[Bug 45689] Computer shuts down too fast

[Vegar Nilsen]

Public bug reported:

This happens with an updated Dapper install as of May 20th.

I've enabled automatic saving of the current session in Gnome. If I
choose Shutdown from the Log out menu, then every terminal window echoes
a message saying that the computer is shutting down (the standard
message from running "shutdown -h now"). The problem is that none of the
running programs are stopped properly, I usually keep Evolution, Firefox
and Straw running along with a bunch of gnome-terminal windows.

(I'm aware that Firefox doesn't support sessions. This bug is not
related to Firefox apart from the risk of data corruption.)

When I start my computer again and login to Gnome I seem to get some
random selection of programs started, not the programs I had running
before the shutdown, and on some occasions Evolution and Straw have lost
settings and the read / unread status is messed up.

I think this bug was introduced within the last two weeks, previously to
that Gnome and the running programs would be stopped before the machine
shut down, thus preserving the session correctly.

vegar$gain [~] dpkg -l gnome-session
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  gnome-session  2.14.1-0ubuntu The GNOME 2 Session Manager

** Affects: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Computer shuts down too fast
https://launchpad.net/bugs/45689