[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#770885: Bug#770885: lightdm: Restart, Suspend, Hibernate, Shut Down all greyed out and nonfunctional

[John Goerzen]

On 11/25/2014 03:37 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On lun., 2014-11-24 at 16:18 -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
>> These all used to work, but in recent jessie do not; the Suspend,
>> Hibernate, Restart, and Shut Down options are all non-functional, as are
>> the corresponding XFCE options at logout.
> Are libpam-systemd and policykit installed? Which init system are you using?
>
> Regards,
Hi,

$ dpkg -l libpam-systemd systemd-shim systemd-sysv
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                    Version          Architecture     Description
+++-=======================-================-================-===================================================
ii  libpam-systemd:amd64    215-5+b1         amd64            system and
service manager - PAM module
ii  systemd-shim            9-1              amd64            shim for
systemd
un  systemd-sysv            <none>           <none>           (no
description available)

The init system is sysv.

I'm not sure what package to check for policykitd.  There's no package
by that name, and packages.debian.org claims there's no file by that
name, either. 

However:

$ dpkg -l '*polkit*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                    Version          Architecture     Description
+++-=======================-================-================-===================================================
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0:amd 0.105-7          amd64            PolicyKit
Authentication Agent API
ii  libpolkit-backend-1-0:a 0.105-7          amd64            PolicyKit
backend API
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0:a 0.105-7          amd64            PolicyKit
Authorization API
un  libpolkit-gtk-1-0       <none>           <none>           (no
description available)
ii  libpolkit-qt-1-1        0.103.0-1        amd64           
PolicyKit-qt-1 library

John