I found a work-around. Create a new user and carefully move files from one account to the other.
I only moved the directories that I was fairly certain weren't Gnome related. Shutting down from the user account now works. I didn't test shutting down from the login page. Probably still not working. Jamie -- 10.10 -> many times logs out instead of shutting down https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/637942 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs