No, I did not update. I formatted my drive and installed 13.1 afresh. That was a few weeks ago. I am currently back on 13.0 fresh install.

Some of us should have read more carefully and realized that you'd switched back to 13.0 (which you mentioned yesterday).

But if you ever encounter the unresponsive shutdown icon again, you now know how to solve it.

Hi, I must have missed a couple of posts as I don't remember seeing a solution for shutdown/restart or the flash issue.

I saw your question in which you asked about my groups

I am hoping to get another chance to try 13.1 during the weekend. Flash should install the same way one would on 13.0....??

I sure did.

The "groups" output you posted for your 13.0 installation tells you why it is working there: the "power" group is listed.

We asked for the groups you are in... not the groups root is in (which is what you are showing us).

Do not use "sudo groups". Use "groups" !

Eric

OK, here you are and thanks

That confirms that the problem is exactly what we've been pointing out once per post. Here's the solution.

Enter the following when you're logged in as root, then log out and log in as siawacsh. If you became root by using su or sudo, then log out as siawacsh and log back in as siawacsh.

After you've done so, post your groups output and tell us if the shutdown and restart buttons have started working.

BTW (and this is not necessarily addressed to siawash), I wasn't aware that you could use sudo from a user account that isn't a member of the wheel group.

Guys, we are talking about skackware 13.1 which I am not using right now. My current system is Slackware 13.0 which has not given the described problems. So I am not clear why your asking me to go through

Unless you mean I should carry out this whenever I reinstall slack 13.1





The reason I use sudo is to give the user siawacsh privilages which the root has. I do this by adding siawacsh sudoers file. For this very reason I always believed sudo and su are distinctly different. The latter logs the user as root and the former just avails the user root privilages. You seem to be indicating that I am wrong in this assumption. Can anyone explain?

Dugan, where in the output of the groups command output does it indicate power?

Yes. This will add your user to the power group, as discussed above.
It doesn't. This is what is causing your problem. You should execute the command given above in order to add your user to the power group.

Hello, I think we are talking past each other despite our efforts to help each other. You see, I have been saying there are no systemic problems with my current slackware 13.0. Which is why I have been asking about the command

It does not show power yet is working fine. All shutdown restart buttons work. Unless, this is procedure for the future 13.1 install.If so, that means slack 13.1 install & configuration has changed. Because I did not have to do any of this up to now.

Yes.

"HAL is not new anymore, but here are a few notes related to it:
...
2. User accounts with permission to do power-management tasks, such as suspend, hibernate, reboot, and shutdown, via HAL methods should be in the "power" group."

slackware-13.1/CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT

OK that makes it clearer. And the issues around flash is another hurdle, yes?