[SOLVED] Shutdown not possible without login manager

Question

When I login using slim as user, everything is fine.
Automatic login without slim changes the rights of my user.
When dbus is active as a daemon in rc.conf, wicd works fine (without dbus wicd would not work), but only xfce4 log-out is avaiblable. Xfce4-Shutdown and -restart is inactive.
I'm not using a login manager, but mingetty, see
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Start_X_at_Boot
(used slim, at that stage I didn't have these kind of problems).
according to the wiki
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Au … al_console
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Au … al_console
  /etc/inittab
id:3:initdefault:
rc::sysinit:/etc/rc.sysinit
rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single
rm:2345:wait:/etc/rc.multi
rh:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown
su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p
# -8 options fixes umlauts problem on login
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin hk tty1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty6 linux
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
My ~/.bash_profile
if [[ -z $DISPLAY && $(tty) = /dev/tty1 ]]; then
#startx &> /dev/null &
exec ck-launch-session startxfce4
#xinit /usr/bin/xfce4-session
fi
I have tried different commands in my ~.xinitrc, but no change of behaviour
1. exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startxfce4 (I read somewhere that ck must be started before dbus-launch)
2. exec ck-launch-session startxfce4
When dbus is inactive in the rc.conf daemon's session, wicd does not work, but I can shut down the computer.
Last edited by mumpf (2012-02-13 18:27:21)

Answer 1

it works now with the help of a debian thread, unfortunately in German
http://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=131087
three additional files in /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local have to set up (exactly the way they are in the thread):
etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.consolekit.pkla
etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.udisks.pkla
etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.upower.pkla
For Archlinux the group powerdev has to be replaced by power and users by storage
in sudoers /usr/lib/xfce4/session/xfsm-shutdown-helper has to be removed.
After a restart all should work (mount and restart works on my installation now).