On 09/09/2011 04:10 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
On ven., 2011-09-09 at 14:12 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
The dialog states something along the lines of requiring root
authentication to shut down a system when users are logged on.
Please provide the exact text.
Did you check that noone else was logged on? That includes root.
Basically it seems that consolekit denies you the shutdown because of
that.
Regards,
Okay, I'll provide the dialog text if/when I see this happen again on my
own system. I can't count on any of my "users" to do that.
Family and friends are the hardest users to instruct, don't you think?
Most of my other users -- the corporate ones -- who have the dubious
benefit of my so-called "expertise" are using the Redmond brand, and
none of my corporate Linux and Unix users are using Debian testing or
Xfce. So much the worse for them.
:-(
I can say for certain that no one else has been logged on when I've seen
this happen on my system or on the others. The systems we're talking
about are used by one user each, and the only time they might have two
regular users connected are when the regular user is on locally, and I'm
on via SSH. None of these users has root (or wants it, apparently).
Also, I've seen the issue on my own system when I was shutting down, and
I close all applications before doing that.
I think I see it happen more often on my own systems after really busy
sessions with a lot of apps open, followed by shutting all the apps down
and quitting the session via a series of <Alt><F4> strokes.
Maybe this is just something that happens when users -- myself and
others -- quit apps and proceed too swiftly to shutting the machine down
or rebooting it?
Thank you for your reply. I'll come back with useful information, if I
can -- or let you know that things have fixed themselves. That seems to
happen frequently in testing -- often because of upgrades of other bits
of the OS than the one with which I happen to be having trouble. It's
one of the things I find charming about testing.
;-)
Regards,
Gilbert
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