shutdown and log out not working Ubuntu 11.10

[G.]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 31 October 2011 13:07, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I upgraded to 11.10 from 11.04.  Now when you try to log out or
>> shutdown, I get nowhere.  If I hit the off switch on the laptop Ubuntu
>> shuts down, however.
>
> Do you mean it just powers off, or does it do a normal shutdown?
>
> Check in gconf-editor that you have *not* got
> Apps/indicator-session/enable_suppress_logout_restart_shutdown
> selected.  If you *have* got it selected then this suppresses the
> dialog that allows restart and so on, which may be confusing the
> situation, though clearing it it will probably not fix the problem.
>
> Colin

Not checked. Must be another cause.

thanks

garyk