[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#886818: Controls to shut down the system are unavailable

[Wouter Verhelst]

Package: lightdm
Version: 1.18.3-5
Severity: normal

Hi,

Up to a week or so ago, lightdm would show controls on the login screen
to shut down and/or reboot the system. Currently, it does not do so
anymore. I'm not sure what changed.

I did notice #770885, but 
- that is about greyed out, not removed, controls
- that is about using sysvinit, whereas I use systemd

I use awesomewm as my user interface, no desktop manager; TTBOMK awesome
does not support shutting down the system at logoff time, and I haven't
tried installing XFCE or some such. If you need me to test that, do ask.
I suspect it wouldn't change the situation much, however.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, m68k, arm64

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_ZA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_ZA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages lightdm depends on:
ii  adduser                                3.116
ii  consolekit                             0.4.6-6
ii  dbus                                   1.12.2-1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                  1.5.65
ii  libaudit1                              1:2.8.2-1
ii  libc6                                  2.26-2
ii  libgcrypt20                            1.8.1-4
ii  libglib2.0-0                           2.54.2-5
ii  libpam-systemd                         236-2
ii  libpam0g                               1.1.8-3.6
ii  libxcb1                                1.12-1
ii  libxdmcp6                              1:1.1.2-3
ii  lightdm-gtk-greeter [lightdm-greeter]  2.0.3-1
ii  lsb-base                               9.20170808

Versions of packages lightdm recommends:
ii  xserver-xorg  1:7.7+19

Versions of packages lightdm suggests:
ii  accountsservice  0.6.45-1
ii  upower           0.99.7-1
ii  xserver-xephyr   2:1.19.5-1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf changed:
[LightDM]
[Seat:*]
display-setup-script = /usr/local/bin/config-x-server
greeter-hide-users = false
[XDMCPServer]
[VNCServer]


-- debconf information:
  lightdm/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/lightdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: lightdm