XFCE 4.8.0 logs out instead of shutting down

[Mike Massonnet]

Hi,

2011/8/22 Dennis Gutowski <dennygoot at gmail.com>:
> Whenever I hit the shut down button on the top right, instead of shutting
> down, it logs me out.
>
> I can then shut down from the login screen.
>
> How do i solve this error?

This most probably means xfce4-session wasn't actually able to perform
the action, because of a restriction for a given permission.

AFAICT there exists two ways to shutdown, with sudo otherwise with hal.

You should take a look at the output of xfce4-session (perhaps its all
stored in .xsession-errors).

Kind Regards
-- 
Mike