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Fixing inability to shutdown/reboot from gnome menu

One of the updates seemed to disable my ability to shutdown or reboot my Gentoo box from the System menu. The fix was to modify the file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ConsoleKit.conf.

I had to add the line:

<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager"
          send_member="GetSessions"/>

I added it just before the following line because organizationally it made sense to me, but it really shouldn’t matter as long as it’s within the <policy context=”default”> section.

<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager"
       send_member="GetSessionForCookie"/>

Had to reboot via a root login, and afterwards, everything seems to work as expected.