...and upgrading gnome-panel did! i installed/upgraded to the following and all worked well:
gnome-panel_2.20.2-2 libwnck22_2.20.2-1 gnome-panel-data_2.20.2-2 thanks for that. Takis On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 15:33 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > reassign 446762 gdm 2.20.2-1 > thanks > > Le mercredi 19 décembre 2007 à 22:03 +1100, Takis Diakoumis a écrit : > > Hi > > > > in an attempt to get my keyring opened on log in using > > libpam-gnome-keyring, i installed the latest gdm and associated deps as > > listed below. > > > > capplets-data (1:2.18.1-1) to 1:2.20.1-2 > > gdm (2.18.4-1) to 2.20.2-1 > > gnome-control-center (1:2.18.1-1) to 1:2.20.1-2 > > gnome-session (2.18.3-1) to 2.20.2-1 > > libgnome-window-settings1 (1:2.18.1-1) to 1:2.20.1-2 > > libpanel-applet2-0 (2.18.3-2) to 2.20.2-2 > > > > the shut down menu item under system has disappeared. i have no idea > > what happened here except that i believe gdm itself to be the culprit. > > This looks very similar to bug #446762. I think this is caused by a > missing conflict on gnome-panel < 2.20, which is affected as well by the > GDM socket path transition. > > Upgrading gnome-panel should fix your issue. > > Cheers,