Cannot log off or shutdown in Ubuntu 10.10

Question

Hey just installed XFCE on my Ubuntu 10.10 machine. But now I cannot log off or shutdown my computer. When I click on Log off or Shutdown nothing happens! If I again click on them a dialog box appears saying that :

Failed to receive a reply from the session manager

Session manager must be in idle state when requesting a shutdown

So how to fix this issue??

which session manager are your system using? gdm or lightdm? — shantanu, Mar 29 '12 at 09:20
Still no luck! Reinstalled GDM but the same error message appears again! — Ravi, Mar 29 '12 at 09:45

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 04 '12 at 03:10

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Simply try sudo shutdown -h now from your terminal.

edited Apr 04 '12 at 03:10

Ringtail

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answered Mar 29 '12 at 09:11

thehilmisu

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Do I always have to use this command? Can you tell another fix or why this is happening? – Ravi Mar 29 '12 at 09:13
Are there any other processes running while you are attempting to shut down the machine? If you want to restart, there is another instance of shutdown you can use ctrl+alt+T sudo shutdown -r now. – RSX-1327 Mar 29 '12 at 12:51

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 04 '12 at 03:10

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I found the solution here is the link :

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1948916.

Thanks all for replying and answering the question.

edited Apr 04 '12 at 03:10

Ringtail

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answered Mar 31 '12 at 21:10

Ravi

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 13 '14 at 18:33

I got this problem simply because the ownership of the the $HOME directory was improperly set to root. It seems that the user must be able to write an an xfce4-session-* file to ~/.cache/sessions/. So attempts to shut down fail if this file is not present.

Cannot log off or shutdown in Ubuntu 10.10

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