Xfce and shutting down...

[Peter Harrison]

Tuesday, 15 April 2008 at 22:53:55 +0100, Peter Harrison said:
> I upgraded my ports a week or so ago (after the Gnome 2.20 upgrade if that helps).
> 
> I'm running Xfce on both 7.0 and 6.3. Before the upgrade, I could use the Xfce opanel shutdown button to poweroff the system (with the appropriate entry in sudoers).
> 
> Following the upgrade, I simply get returned to the login screen, with the following message repeated twice in /var/log/messages:
> 
> console-kit-daemon[839]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_hash_table_destroy: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed
> 
> Can anyone shed any light on what's changed to prevent Xfce from being able to shut the system down? (Note, I can still poweroff by su-ing to root and running 'shutdown -p now').
> 
> Can anyone shed any light?
> 
> Thanks for your help.


Answering my own question, but for the sake of the archives...

It seems that xfsm-shutdown-helper no longer uses sudo to gain the necessary privileges to shut the system down - instead it uses hal & policykit.

Unfortunately this changeover doesn't seem to be documented anywhere - either for freebsd or xfce. However, give the user the appropriate permissions in /usr/local/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf (see the man page for details) and it all starts working again.



Peter Harrison



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