Subject says it all, the shutdown was clean so nothing terrible just very strange. Environment is debian lenny. I have these in server /var/log/messages but looks unrelated: Feb 18 20:19:39 kernel: [ 1465.075269] ioctl32(xfce4-terminal:7841): Unknown cmd fd(8) cmd(0000530b){t:'S';sz:0} arg(f7e6dc8a) on /dev/pts/3 Feb 18 20:19:39 kernel: [ 1465.075269] ioctl32(xfce4-terminal:7841): Unknown cmd fd(8) cmd(0000530b){t:'S';sz:0} arg(f7e6dc8f) on /dev/pts/3 Feb 18 20:19:39 kernel: [ 1465.075269] ioctl32(xfce4-terminal:7841): Unknown cmd fd(8) cmd(0000530b){t:'S';sz:0} arg(f7e6dc96) on /dev/pts/3 Feb 18 20:24:38 shutdown[7876]: shutting down for system halt /etc/sudoers was configured this way (yay for security!): ALL ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/xfsm-shutdown-helper
I don't think this problem has anything to do with xfce... your syslog claims it got a halt command, so presumably there's something wrong with your kernel or init scripts.
(In reply to comment #1) > I don't think this problem has anything to do with xfce... your syslog claims > it got a halt command, so presumably there's something wrong with your kernel > or init scripts. halt, reboot from command line work fine, pressing the power button works too. Looking at xfsm-shutdown-helper.c the command that is executed to reboot should be something similar to this? /usr/bin/sudo sudo -H -S -p password -- 1
I see... well, the sudo helper is pretty much unmaintained, and only there for systems that don't support HAL. If you can use HAL, I'd strongly suggest you do so, otherwise you'll have to find the problem yourself.
(In reply to comment #3) > I see... well, the sudo helper is pretty much unmaintained, and only there for > systems that don't support HAL. If you can use HAL, I'd strongly suggest you > do so, otherwise you'll have to find the problem yourself. There's something wrong with the machine, typed halt and it rebooted :( Feel free to close as invalid but i'm curious on how i can figure out if i'm using sudo or hal. The use of sudo is just a guess because i usually have to add the user to sudoers to have shutdown / reboot buttons active.
If you have further questions, bugzilla isn't the place for them...