Talk: Poweroff/reboot doesn’t work in GNOME, when an inhibitor is held

[kparal (Kamil Páral)]

Please see the Common Issue for solution/workarounds:

Poweroff/reboot doesn't work in GNOME, when an inhibitor is held

Problem In Fedora 42 Workstation, if an application is “inhibiting” (preventing) shutdown - e.g. a text editor has an unsaved document - then attempting to power off or reboot anyway (which GNOME offers to let you do) will have no effect, the system will keep running and the poweroff/reboot button will appear non-functional. [Shutdown inhibitor preventing power off/reboot] Also, in some situations, the shutdown/reboot dialog will not even inform you about which apps/processes hold the inhibit…