XFCE 4.8.0 logs out instead of shutting down

[Jérôme Guelfucci]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

This most probably means you have xfdesktop 4.8.0. Updating to the
latest version should fix this issue.

Cheers,

Jérôme