Re: "Unable to perform shutdown" from Xfce

["goran@dobosevic.com" <goran@dobosevic.com>]

Liviu Andronic wrote:
> Dear all,
> More shutdown blues. Whenever I hit the Restart/Shut Down buttons in
> Xfce log-off-er, I get the following error, and the system falls back
> to gdm.
> "Unable to perform shutdown
>
> org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.shutdown-multiple-sessions
> auth_admin <-- (action, result)"
>
> I get the exact same issue on an up-to-date Ubuntu Jackalope, and here
> I'm running Debian Squeeze. I see that the issue was discussed on
> Debian [1] and Ubuntu [2]. Following the Debian thread, I checked that
> I have libpam-ck-connector and policykit installed. I've read that the
> issue might go away if an appropriate PolicyKit.conf was configured.
>
> Could anyone attach a PolicyKit.conf that works on Debian Squeeze? Or
> perhaps suggest a different way to work around the issue?
> Thank you
> Liviu
> [1] http://osdir.com/ml/debian-bugs-dist/2009-04/msg08404.html
> [2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-users/2009-June/001778.html
>
>
> liviu@debian-liv:~$ polkit-auth | grep -i power
> org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.shutdown
> org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.reboot
> org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.set-powersave
> org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.suspend
> org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.hibernate
> org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.cpufreq
> org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.lcd-panel
> org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.light-sensor
> org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.keyboard-backlight
Hi,
here is my PolicyKit.conf from Sid XFCE (upgrade from Squeeze):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- XML -*- -->

<!DOCTYPE pkconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Configuration 
1.0//EN"
"http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit/1.0/config.dtd";>

<!-- See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format -->

<config version="0.1">
</config>
I really don't remember how I did it but it was first link from google.
If I can send you something else let me know.

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