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JeremyBoden 07-02-2014 03:01 PM
GUI shutdown from XFCE (Debian) does not work
 
Shutdown button (and logout too) ignored on Debian+XFCE on ancient laptop.

Workround of
Code:
gksu init 0
gives a clean shutdown, but other family users would not be able to cope with this.

Germany_chris 07-02-2014 03:01 PM
did you add yourself to the power group?

JeremyBoden 07-02-2014 05:10 PM
I didn't have a power group, so I created one
Code:
groupadd -g 2000 power
(on second thoughts, I'm probably not allowed to choose my own gid).
I added myself with
Code:
usermod -a -G power jeremy
and removed any group password with
Code:
gpasswd -r power
Final result is
Code:
~$ id jeremy
uid=1000(jeremy) gid=1000(jeremy) groups=1000(jeremy),27(sudo),2000(power)
But shutdown etc still doesn't work. :banghead:

norobro 07-02-2014 07:02 PM
Try adding acpi=force as a kernel command line parameter.

link - bottom of page.

JeremyBoden 07-03-2014 08:46 AM
Sad to say, this didn't work.

I altered the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line in /etc/default/grub from
Code:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
to
Code:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet acpi=force"
and ran update-grub (and rebooted).

acpi appears to be running on the laptop:-
Code:
jeremy@dalek:~$ acpi -V
Battery 0: Charging, 95%, charging at zero rate - will never fully charge.
Battery 0: design capacity 2000 mAh, last full capacity 2000 mAh = 100%
Adapter 0: on-line
Cooling 0: Processor 0 of 0
Perhaps I should just write a suid script?


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