[SOLVED]Openbox shutdown issue

Question

I have added shutdown and reboot capabilities to a standard openbox menu. The reboot works fine but the shutdown has some issues. When I select "Shutdown" my X stops responding and the only thing i can do is kill X (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace) and then issue a shutdown command manually.
This is my relevant openbox menu entry
<menu id="quit-menu" label="Quit">
<item label="Log Out">
<action name="Exit">
<prompt>yes</prompt>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Reboot">
<action name="Execute">
<command>sudo shutdown -r now</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Shutdown">
<action name="Execute">
<command>sudo shutdown -h now</command>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
and I have added this line at the end of the sudoers file
inxsible ALL=NOPASSWD:/sbin/shutdown
Why is it that reboot works and shutdown doesn't?
Last edited by Inxsible (2009-01-23 00:30:14)

Answer 1

B wrote:
Well I have it here anyway so...
[stijn@hermes ~]$ cat /etc/acpi/events/power
# This is called when the user presses the power button
event=button/power (PWR.||PBTN)
action=/sbin/poweroff
Restart acpid and enjoy .
It's also funny to have people see you press that button and everything goes out. 'Oh no you cannot do that! That is bad for your system!'
Windows users eeh .
Already got it from the Wiki. acpid doesnt seem to wanna start. it says device or resource busy.
I will try a reboot and see.
Hopefully it should work. BUT it still irks me that the /sbin/shutdown option doesn't work for shutdown but works for reboot. GRRRRRRRRRR !!!!