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Foucault

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2010-04-06

Posts: 214

Automounting & Power off from XFCE stopped working

Hello, after the latest xorg update my automounting as well as my shutdown/reboot options from XFCE's logout dialog stopped working. I can't also mount other partitions as non-root user. This is one of the most common problems that appear once in a while and I usually tweak my .xinitrc and/or pam.d files to get functionality back, but this time I have no luck. My display manager is plain XDM. I should mention that if I startx from a tty everything is working properly.

Relevant files

.xinitrc

xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --auto-syntax --exit-with-session startxfce4

/etc/pam.d/xdm

auth		required	pam_unix.so
auth		required	pam_nologin.so
auth		required	pam_env.so
auth            optional        pam_gnome_keyring.so
account		required	pam_unix.so
password	required	pam_unix.so
session		required	pam_unix.so
session         optional        pam_loginuid.so
session         optional        pam_ck_connector.so nox11
session         optional        pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
session		required	pam_limits.so

/etc/pam.d/login

auth		required	pam_securetty.so
auth		requisite	pam_nologin.so
auth		required	pam_unix.so nullok
auth		required	pam_tally.so onerr=succeed file=/var/log/faillog

account		required	pam_access.so
account		required	pam_time.so
account		required	pam_unix.so

session		required	pam_unix.so
session		required	pam_env.so
session		required	pam_motd.so
session		required	pam_limits.so
session		optional	pam_mail.so dir=/var/spool/mail standard
session		optional	pam_lastlog.so
session		optional	pam_loginuid.so
-session	optional	pam_ck_connector.so nox11
# session	optional	pam_ck_connector.so # same results as above with this

Output of ck-list-sessions

Session8:
	unix-user = '1000'
	realname = '...'
	seat = 'Seat1'
	session-type = ''
	active = TRUE
	x11-display = ':0'
	x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
	display-device = ''
	remote-host-name = ''
	is-local = TRUE
	on-since = '2011-10-12T23:08:23.442789Z'
	login-session-id = '4'
Session9:
	unix-user = '1000'
	realname = '...'
	seat = 'Seat1'
	session-type = ''
	active = FALSE
	x11-display = ':0'
	x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
	display-device = ''
	remote-host-name = ''
	is-local = TRUE
	on-since = '2011-10-12T23:08:23.554858Z'
	login-session-id = '4'

and the groups I'm in

disk lp wheel utmp network video audio optical storage power users vboxusers foucault sentaurus

Any ideas? Could this be an XDM issue or any misconfiguration? The same thing happens with slim as well. I could really use some help here. All four bullets mentioned in the wiki are true.

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by Foucault (2011-10-12 23:36:53)

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rwd

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Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 664

Re: Automounting & Power off from XFCE stopped working

I had this issue since an upgrade last few days.  But the problem seems to have solved by itself. After I did these things the problem was solved, although I doubt if it really had any direct effect: I reinstalled polkit and shadow, rebooted, issued 'ck-list-sessions' both before and after starting x.

Now if I issue 'ck-list-sessions' within x I get:

Session1:
	unix-user = '1000'
	realname = '(null)'
	seat = 'Seat1'
	session-type = ''
	active = FALSE
	x11-display = ''
	x11-display-device = ''
	display-device = '/dev/tty1'
	remote-host-name = ''
	is-local = TRUE
	on-since = '2011-11-08T17:38:35.613501Z'
	login-session-id = '1'
	idle-since-hint = '2011-11-08T17:39:39.685144Z'
Session2:
	unix-user = '1000'
	realname = '(null)'
	seat = 'Seat1'
	session-type = ''
	active = TRUE
	x11-display = ':0'
	x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
	display-device = '/dev/tty1'
	remote-host-name = ''
	is-local = TRUE
	on-since = '2011-11-08T17:39:15.580472Z'
	login-session-id = '1'

Before I only got a session with "active = FALSE"

Last edited by rwd (2011-11-08 17:57:20)

kalithlev

Member

Registered: 2011-11-08

Posts: 5

Re: Automounting & Power off from XFCE stopped working

I have the same issues with Slim. I can get shutdown/suspend/hibernate/reboot back if I downgrade xfce4-session to 4.8.2-1. Things work if go to runlevel 3 and use startx.

rwd

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Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 664

Re: Automounting & Power off from XFCE stopped working

The problem seems to reappear.  The changelogs for xfce4-session 4.8.2-2 say: "Remove .pkla files; shutdown/suspend/etc should continue to work for people with correct ConsoleKit sessions."

So I need a consolekit session to be able to shutdown. However if I  start xfce with no displaymanager using 'exec ck-launch-session startxfce4' in my .xinitrc. and check my sessions with 'ck-list-sessions' I get:

Session2:
	unix-user = '1001'
	realname = '(null)'
	seat = 'Seat1'
	session-type = ''
	active = FALSE
	x11-display = ''
	x11-display-device = ''
	display-device = '/dev/tty2'
	remote-host-name = ''
	is-local = TRUE
	on-since = '2011-11-21T18:13:26.929832Z'
	login-session-id = '2'
	idle-since-hint = '2011-11-21T18:13:58.225846Z'
Session4:
	unix-user = '1000'
	realname = '(null)'
	seat = 'Seat3'
	session-type = ''
	active = FALSE
	x11-display = ':0'
	x11-display-device = '/dev/tty8'
	display-device = '/dev/tty1'
	remote-host-name = ''
	is-local = FALSE
	on-since = '2011-11-21T18:19:24.067561Z'
	login-session-id = '1'

That would explain why I can't shutdown, but it makes me wonder how do I get get a valid session. The wiki on consolekit seems to imply that I need a displaymanager, but I rather would not use one. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Last edited by rwd (2011-11-21 22:58:56)