On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:41:19 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez <cor...@debian.org> wrote: > On mar., 2011-09-27 at 04:47 +0300, Dmitry Kurochkin wrote: > > > > lightdm has empty shutdown menu (i.e. there is the menu icon in top > > right corner, but an empty menu is opened when you click on it). This > > happened on a freshly installed minimal Debian unstable system, so I > > guess I have some package(s) missing. But I have no idea which one. > > Is it only on gtk greeter? Could you try with qt one? My guess is a > permission issue (like if you can't shutdown/restart/whatever) but I > fail to see why. >
I did not try the qt greeter. And I do not see the issue anymore, apparently because I installed more packages on the system. I can try reproducing it in a VM but it seems that "looking at source code" method should be more straightforward, especially if you know it. I agree that it looks like a permission issue of some sort. But I did not see any related warnings or errors in lightdm log. If lightdm just executes shutdown command directly, I would expect to see the menu items but get permission error when I try to run it. Since there is no items in the menu, that means lightdm does some check like "am I allowed to shutdown?" or receives a list of shutdown commands from an external service. I think it is fine for lightdm to not allow shutdown. But it should not display the shutdown menu icon if it is empty. Besides a notice in the log may be useful. And the Debian package should recommend/suggest appropriate package to get the shutdown functionality. My primary suspects for required Debian package(s) is something related to PolicyKit or ConsoleKit. Regards, Dmitry > Regards, > -- > Yves-Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
