On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:09:43 +0200, Yves-Alexis wrote: >On mar, 2009-04-28 at 09:10 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Tue,28.Apr.09, 07:52:35, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: >> > On lun, 2009-04-27 at 17:19 -0400, Pascal Gervais wrote: >> > > Same behavior here since the recent hal update. Consolekit and >> > > policykit are installed. If this can help, I don't use any >> > > display manager like GDM, XDM, SLIM, etc. I start Xfce with >> > > startxfce4. >> >> I also have policykit and consolekit installed. First thing I >> checked, sorry for not mentioning. >> >> > Hmhm, good point, that may be related, I'll have to try. Andrei, >> > how do you start Xfce? Using a DM or directly through >> > startx/startxfce4? >> >> I use gdm, but I can reproduce this with both startx and >> startxfce4. What else can I try? > >With gdm it should work fine. Could you try ck-list-sessions and report >what it give? > >Without gdm, it seems that you need libpam-ck-connector. Could you >install it, log out and log back in, then start xfce (using startxfce4 >or startx /usr/bin/startxfce4). And retry ck-list-sessions as well as >the shutdown stuff. > >I hope it'll fix your problem. If it does, we'll add a recommends on >xfce4-session for this one.
It did for me, sort of. After installing libpam-ck-connector, ck-list-sessions actually recognises the session and prints it. But with a plain PolicyKit.conf I still couldn't shutdown/reboot my system. I had to uncomment the content of the posted PolicyKit.conf to get it working. After that, polkit-auth listed the shutdown and reboot actions and shutting down the system from Xfce actually worked. Why did the *kit guys make things so complicated? The remaining questions are: - Shouldn't it work a bit more out of the box, also for users without any fancy display manager? - Is it worth forwarding this bug to the consolekit/policykit packages to get some more input? Regards, Enrico -- Get my GPG key from http://www.uvena.de/pub.asc
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