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Modeler

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2011-07-28

Posts: 70

[Solved] Shutdown / reboot permissions when using LXDM

Hi,

Really hoping someone can help with this one. I permissioned my user by following the procedure here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LX … _from_LXDE

I found I could shut down and reboot as a non-root user freely. I then installed LXDM as described here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LXDE#LXDM

Sessions started via LXDM get prompted for the root password. I understand that starting the session via consolekit is the key to the .xinitrc method:

exec ck-launch-session startlxde

However, this page states "Display managers like KDM, GDM and LXDM starts consolekit automatically with each X session.":

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ConsoleKit

So consolekit is just not working properly with LXDM? Any help would be much appreciated. I've wasted an evening trying to sort this out; more the fool me.

[Edit] I seem to have just solved this. I have a habit of keeping the default run level set to 3 while I was debugging, then running "init 5" to launch X with LXDM. This definitely doesn't allow me to shut down or reboot the machine. When I changed the default run level to 5 and booted straight into LXDM, it's fine. Marking as solved but could this be worthy of a bug report?

[Edit] Seems it's nothing to do with LXDM; it's a symptom of having root logged in elsewhere (another console of pty). Logging said root user out fixes it. I suppose it makes sense that a non-root user shouldn't knock root off so not bug per se.

Last edited by Modeler (2011-07-29 23:00:03)

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