[gentoo-user] Trying to shutdown/reboot computer from gnome

[gentoo-user] Trying to shutdown/reboot computer from gnome

[Damian]

Currently I cannot turn off the computer, nor reboot using gnome 2.28.2.
Googling around it seems that it is a polkit related problem. I've tried
to do what is mentioned here:
    http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-mint-84/authentication-to-restart-and-turn-off-789357/

But polkit-auth --show-obtainable shows nothing.

I'm running gnome via startx, and the .xinitrc file looks like this:
    export XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-
    exec ck-launch-session gnome-session

Could anybody manage to get this working?

Thanks in advance,
Damian.

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to shutdown/reboot computer from gnome

[Damian]

Damian <damian.only@gmail.com> writes:

> Currently I cannot turn off the computer, nor reboot using gnome 2.28.2.
> Googling around it seems that it is a polkit related problem. I've tried
> to do what is mentioned here:
>     http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-mint-84/authentication-to-restart-and-turn-off-789357/
>
> But polkit-auth --show-obtainable shows nothing.
>
> I'm running gnome via startx, and the .xinitrc file looks like this:
>     export XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-
>     exec ck-launch-session gnome-session
>
> Could anybody manage to get this working?
Ok, the problem seemed to be gone after the addition of the gnome, polkit,
policykit, and consolekit use flags. I don't know which flag got it
working.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to shutdown/reboot computer from gnome

[dhk]

On 04/23/2010 06:13 AM, Damian wrote:
> Damian <damian.only@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Currently I cannot turn off the computer, nor reboot using gnome 2.28.2.
>> Googling around it seems that it is a polkit related problem. I've tried
>> to do what is mentioned here:
>>     http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-mint-84/authentication-to-restart-and-turn-off-789357/
>>
>> But polkit-auth --show-obtainable shows nothing.
>>
>> I'm running gnome via startx, and the .xinitrc file looks like this:
>>     export XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-
>>     exec ck-launch-session gnome-session
>>
>> Could anybody manage to get this working?
> Ok, the problem seemed to be gone after the addition of the gnome, polkit,
> policykit, and consolekit use flags. I don't know which flag got it
> working.
> 
> 
> 

I have the same problem.  The shutdown option disappeared as an option
from the menu about the same time as this email and a gnome release.  It
just took a few months to get around to it.  I have gnome built with
policykit (see below), but still no shutdown option.  I have to log in
as root to shutdown properly.

# emerge -pv gnome

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] gnome-base/gnome-2.28.2  USE="cdr cups policykit
-accessibility -dvdr -ldap -mono" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB

Also why doesn't alacarte have shutdown and some other stuff for adding
and removing in the main menu?

Shutting down from the gnome desktop would make things easier.  How can
I get that option back?

Thanks,

--dhk