Re: [gentoo-user] xfce: unable to perform shutdown

[dhk]

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