[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#741698: : lightdm: shutdown/restart options in XFCE are no longer available

Agustin Martin agmartin at debian.org
Thu Sep 24 14:28:43 UTC 2015


On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 04:04:25PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 09:25:46PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > On mar., 2014-05-27 at 22:12 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > > 
> > > I experienced the same issue on a sid box, and what worked for me was to
> > > install (in that order):
> > > 
> > > - systemd-shim
> > > - libpam-systemd
> > > 
> > > I think policykit was switched to logind (so consolekit is not useful
> > > anymore). I think you need to install them in that specific order
> > > because systemd-shim will fulfill dependencies needed for libpam-systemd
> > > (which would otherwise pull systemd-as-init stuff, which might not be
> > > what you want right now).
> > > 
> > 
> > So, what's the status on this? With sysrv-core, systemd-shim and latest
> > cgmanager it should work just fine, can you confirm/infirm this?
> 
> I remember this working for some time, but seems this problem has recently
> reappeared, at least with sysvrc as init system.
> 
> In lightdm greeter, shutdown/reboot options are grayed and not available
> 
> When running shutdown from inside xfce, system claims that there is another
> user connected, even if that is not true, asking for authentication.

One correction here. In this case, I previously opened a root terminal from
xfce menu. I think it was already closed when shutting down but cannot
confirm now.

When no previous root terminal is opened, xfce asks for authenticacion after
running shutdown from xfce exit menu.

Regards,

-- 
Agustin



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