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* [gentoo-user] xfce: unable to perform shutdown
@ 2010-01-04 11:13 José Romildo Malaquias
  2010-01-04 11:13 ` José Romildo Malaquias
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From: José Romildo Malaquias @ 2010-01-04 11:13 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: xfce, gentoo-user

Hello.

When shutting down my ~amd64 gentoo system running XFCE, the system
does not shut down and I receive the following error message, and then
the XFCE session is closed.

Unable to perform shutdown
error: org.freedesktop.Hal.Error: Could not determine whether caller
is privileged
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Error

Any clues?

Romildo



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* [gentoo-user] xfce: unable to perform shutdown
  2010-01-04 11:13 [gentoo-user] xfce: unable to perform shutdown José Romildo Malaquias
@ 2010-01-04 11:13 ` José Romildo Malaquias
  2010-01-04 11:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Liviu Andronic
  2010-01-04 21:24 ` [gentoo-user] " dhk
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: José Romildo Malaquias @ 2010-01-04 11:13 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: xfce, gentoo-user

Hello.

When shutting down my ~amd64 gentoo system running XFCE, the system
does not shut down and I receive the following error message, and then
the XFCE session is closed.

Unable to perform shutdown
error: org.freedesktop.Hal.Error: Could not determine whether caller
is privileged
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Error

Any clues?

Romildo



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* [gentoo-user] Re: xfce: unable to perform shutdown
  2010-01-04 11:13 [gentoo-user] xfce: unable to perform shutdown José Romildo Malaquias
  2010-01-04 11:13 ` José Romildo Malaquias
@ 2010-01-04 11:38 ` Liviu Andronic
  2010-01-04 21:24 ` [gentoo-user] " dhk
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Liviu Andronic @ 2010-01-04 11:38 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: XFCE general discussion list; +Cc: gentoo-user

On 1/4/10, José Romildo Malaquias <j.romildo@gmail.com> wrote:
>  When shutting down my ~amd64 gentoo system running XFCE, the system
>  does not shut down and I receive the following error message, and then
>  the XFCE session is closed.
>
>  Unable to perform shutdown
>  error: org.freedesktop.Hal.Error: Could not determine whether caller
>  is privileged
>  org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Error
>
>  Any clues?
>
Yes. Something similar is happening on amd64 Debian systems (see
[1][2]). The only workaround that I'm aware of sofar is to make sure
no root programs are running when hitting the shutdown/restart button.
Liviu

[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-xfce-devel/2009-April/008492.html
[2] http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg553778.html



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* Re: [gentoo-user] xfce: unable to perform shutdown
  2010-01-04 11:13 [gentoo-user] xfce: unable to perform shutdown José Romildo Malaquias
  2010-01-04 11:13 ` José Romildo Malaquias
  2010-01-04 11:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Liviu Andronic
@ 2010-01-04 21:24 ` dhk
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: dhk @ 2010-01-04 21:24 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user; +Cc: xfce

José Romildo Malaquias wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> When shutting down my ~amd64 gentoo system running XFCE, the system
> does not shut down and I receive the following error message, and then
> the XFCE session is closed.
> 
> Unable to perform shutdown
> error: org.freedesktop.Hal.Error: Could not determine whether caller
> is privileged
> org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Error
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> Romildo
> 
> 

I had a similar problem.  I think I fixed it by adding "hal" the the USE
variable in the /etc/make.conf file.  Then doing an "emerge -uDN world".

dave



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