I could turn off my system from Lxpanel. After which I installed Cairo dock and removed lxpanel. Shut down menu from the application launcher in the dock performs no action.
Regards, Divya Subramanian On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Paul Wise <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Divya Subramanian wrote: > > > I checked it but no such packages are removed. > > Seems I was mistaken, I thought you were talking about a hardware button. > > > Where does the shut down button from application menu mapsto ? > > That depends on the software in question. At a guess, lxpanel is > package containing the shutdown button for LXDE. Looking at > codesearch.d.n for lxpanel I found that shutdown in lxpanel uses gdm > or hal. hal has been removed from Debian so I doubt you are using > that. IIRC gdm requires systemd interfaces. Searching the Internet for > systemd shutdown debian, I found some related links, including that > this is a known bug. The issue is that the LXDE support for > systemd/logind is buggy. Your options are to get an NMU of lxsession > with the Maeiga/upstream patch included, get involved in the LXDE team > and help them maintain it and fix the bug, switch back to sysvinit or > ignore it for now and use systemctl poweroff/init 0/shutdown -h now. > > http://sources.debian.net/src/lxpanel/latest/debian/lxpanel.README.Debian > https://bugs.debian.org/730123 > https://bugs.debian.org/731489 > > BTW: LXDE will be probably soon be removed from Debian to make way for > the rewrite called LXQt. > > -- > bye, > pabs > > http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6F=d3bq4kfsh+lm6hmegrbsw5sx_vopbexdxstetik...@mail.gmail.com > >

