Post #3236933
2026-05-25 22:45 UTC
@jimsalter@fosstodon.org That says gnome asked it to inhibit logout due to a user application asking, usually gedit's "unsaved changes" in my experience? Not that it shouldn't ignore inhibitors by default when doing an interactive invocation of shutdown, but gnome-session-inhibit can show what's actually blocking the logout. (IMO an interactive invocation should just do an "are you sure? y/n" prompt at most)
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@jimsalter@fosstodon.org 2026-05-25 23:37
@becomethewaifu@tech.lgbt jimbo@elden:~$ gnome-session-inhibit -l : A foreground process is running (logout) With that said, the first time I encountered this issue, I DIDN'T have Gnome or any other DE installed--it was when I tried to shutdown -r now immediately after doing my first 26.04 installation. I didn't apt install ubuntu-desktop until AFTER the reboot that I had to learn the special idiot arguments for! :)