can't suspend, hibernate or switch-user from xfce4 panel

johnpuppa · 07-17-2013, 08:57 AM

Hello guys, as the name of the topic says, I have this problem and I can't figure out where the problem lies. The three button are completely grey and I have no access to them. pm-suspend and pm-hibernate from command line work fine.
upower,ConsoleKit, and polkit are present:

Here is the output for xfce4-power-manager

Quote:

xfce4-power-manager --dump
---------------------------------------------------
Xfce power manager version 1.2.0
With policykit support
With network manager support
With DPMS support
---------------------------------------------------
Can suspend: True
Can hibernate: True
Can spin down hard disks: True
Authorized to suspend: True
Authorized to hibernate: True
Authorized to shutdown: True
Authorized to spin down hard disks: False
Has battery: True
Has brightness panel: True
Has power button: True
Has hibernate button: True
Has sleep button: True
Has LID: True

The Authorized option were all false before I modified the file:

Quote:

/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/20-plugdev-group-mount-override.pkla

adding, and starting rc.consolekit:

Quote:

[Re-enable hibernate by default]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate
ResultActive=yes

On Xfce4 panel, as I said before the buttons keep to be grey and not accessible.
OS:Slack 14.0
Any Idea?

STDOUBT · 07-18-2013, 12:54 AM

Haven't used XFCE much since 4.10 came to Slackware, but are you sure you haven't "played around" with the Panel settings? Each "Launcher" or "Item" on the Panel has it's own preferences settings.

titopoquito · 07-18-2013, 09:26 AM

Is your user member of the "power" group? Not sure if "plugdev" is required, too.

johnpuppa · 07-18-2013, 10:12 AM

Hello guys, and thanks for replying.

Quote:

Originally Posted by titopoquito

Is your user member of the "power" group? Not sure if "plugdev" is required, too.

Yes my user is in the power group. I also tried to add it to the "plugdev". No luck..

TommyC7 · 07-18-2013, 10:22 AM

I found this on a Gentoo forum, but I'm wondering if it helps:

In your sudoers:

Code:

root ALL=(ALL) ALL
%users ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/lib64/xfce4/session/xfsm-shutdown-helper

In /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/power.pkla (if it doesn't exist, feel free to make it but if it does exist, append):

Code:

[Local restart]
Identity=unix-group:power
Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes

[Local shutdown]
Identity=unix-group:power
Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes

[Local restart - multiple]
Identity=unix-group:power
Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart-multiple-users
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes

[Local shutdown - multiple]
Identity=unix-group:power
Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop-multiple-users
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes

johnpuppa · 07-20-2013, 05:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TommyC7

I found this on a Gentoo forum, but I'm wondering if it helps:

In your sudoers:

Code:

root ALL=(ALL) ALL
%users ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/lib64/xfce4/session/xfsm-shutdown-helper

In /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/power.pkla (if it doesn't exist, feel free to make it but if it does exist, append):

Code:

[Local restart]
Identity=unix-group:power
Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes

[Local shutdown]
Identity=unix-group:power
Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes

[Local restart - multiple]
Identity=unix-group:power
Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart-multiple-users
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes

[Local shutdown - multiple]
Identity=unix-group:power
Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop-multiple-users
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes

Thanks for the post Tommy. I had tried this previously too, and nothing worked out for me.
On this thread seems that the guy had some package that was missing. Maybe it's the same problem for me too. I'm trying to figure out which could be...
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1014130

camerabambai · 02-06-2018, 10:41 PM

I have the same problem on slackware current now.
I have edited sudo as root with visudo

Code:

# fix for xfce4 suspend
%users ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/lib64/xfce4/session/xfsm-shutdown-helper

edited the file
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/power.pkla

Code:

[Local restart]
Identity=unix-group:power
Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes

[Local shutdown]
Identity=unix-group:power
Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes

[Local restart - multiple]
Identity=unix-group:power
Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart-multiple-users
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes

[Local shutdown - multiple]
Identity=unix-group:power
Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop-multiple-users
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes

My user is in group power,I have reboot and..no kodi,nor xfce4 show the hibernate button

xfce4-power-manager dump said..

Code:

 Xfce power manager version 1.4.4
With policykit support
Without network manager support
---------------------------------------------------
Can suspend: False
Can hibernate: False
Authorized to suspend: False
Authorized to hibernate: False
Authorized to shutdown: False
Has battery: False
Has brightness panel: True
Has power button: True
Has hibernate button: True
Has sleep button: True
Has LID: False

I see a strange message error on /var/log/messages

Code:

dbus-daemon[1105]: [system] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.UPower' failed: Failed to execute program org.freedesktop.UPower: Permission denied

p.s=I can hibernate from console with pm-suspend