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#275
Policykit-1: can't poweroff or restart from xfce user menu
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bug#275; Package policykit-1.
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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):
Package: policykit-1
Version: 0.105-23
Severity: important
I think that it is a similar issue as this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765383
I can't poweroff restart and do other actions like mount external volumes.
The system session manager is slim.
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Devuan
Description: Devuan GNU/Linux beowulf/ceres
Release: 10
Codename: n/a
uname -r
4.18.0-3-amd64
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bug#275; Package policykit-1.
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Message #10 received at 275@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):
Hi,
I append more info from /var/log/syslog file:
Dec 29 10:43:03 beowulf dbus-daemon[1854]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' requested by ':1.38' (uid=1000 pid=2746 comm="xfce4-session ") (using servicehelper)
Dec 29 10:43:03 beowulf dbus-daemon[1854]: [system] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' failed: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 127
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Message #15 received at 275@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):
This solution: https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20190129.061245.464347ee.en.html works for me. Now I can poweroff, restart and mount external devices too.
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Message #20 received at 275-done@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):
Fixed with policykit-1 version 0.105-25+devuan1 built for ceres and beowulf
which adds -elogind and -consolekit flavour libpolkit backends.
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