Second attempt at FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386, Xorg, and Xfce graphical desktop

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2017, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

> At 2017-01-19 06:15, Warren Block was heard to say:
>> On Wed, 18 Jan 2017, Sergei Akhmatdinov wrote:
>> 
>>> Not sure why XFCE needs so much work over what is essentially a `shutdown
>>> (-r|-p) now` wrapper.
>> 
>> I just add those entries to the polkit file and it works.  If there is
>> something else that needs to be done, I did it a long time ago, but
>> I'm pretty sure I have set up machines from scratch with the same
>> configuration.
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>
> I just reinstalled a laptop with 11-RELEASE and ran into the very same 
> problem that you seem to *not* have. I have enabled just about everything 
> (polkitd|hald|dbus|whatnot) in rc.conf, I've granted my user account the 
> rights to do everything in the polkit config file, and still cannot shut down 
> or restart the box using XFCE's logout dialog. sudo /sbin/poweroff runs 
> flawlessly though, so it is not really an issue. It is just a wart on an 
> otherwise smooth setup. I have not tried to build XFCE from the ports tree 
> though. Will try as soon as I get round to it.

That's an interesting idea.  Maybe the hal requirement when using 
packages interferes with the shutdown.

It would be nice to solve this, then we can add it to the pkg-message.