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cmm7825

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Registered: 2012-04-08

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Xmonad doesn't have permissions to reboot when started via init[SOLVED

In my xmonad.hs I have keyboard shortcuts for rebooting and halting:

, ((mod4Mask .|. shiftMask, xK_F12), spawn "dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=\"org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit\" /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Stop")

, ((mod4Mask .|. shiftMask, xK_F11), spawn "dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=\"org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit\" /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Restart")

This works fine when I startx manually. However, when I boot in to run level 5 this doesn't work. Here is the line from my initab to startx:

x:5:once:/bin/su - -- chris -l -c '/usr/bin/startx </dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1'

From looking at the ps output it seems like X and xmonad are running under my username, so I'm not sure why it would make a difference.

Last edited by cmm7825 (2012-04-09 02:07:15)

Trilby

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Re: Xmonad doesn't have permissions to reboot when started via init[SOLVED

I'm not sure why it doesn't work - it is odd that X are running under your usernam.  X itself should be root.

Anyways, I have a few ideas on how to get the desired results.  First, you could boot to runlevel 3 with autologin and a modified bashrc to startx when in a console on ttyi1 (this is in the wiki).

Alternately, and probably a lot easier, would be to just put reboot and halt/shutdown in your sudoers file to not need a password.  Then there is no need for consolekit ... and if you do not have anything else that depends on consolekit you can ditch it all together.

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cmm7825

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Registered: 2012-04-08

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Re: Xmonad doesn't have permissions to reboot when started via init[SOLVED

I already tried that, with no luck. Also, I was mistaken, X is running as root but xmonad and xinit are running as me.

cmm7825

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Registered: 2012-04-08

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Re: Xmonad doesn't have permissions to reboot when started via init[SOLVED

Ok I got the sudo /sbin/shutdown method working. I didn't realize the order of the sudoers file mattered. I had to put the NOPASSWD shutdown rule AFTER my rule to allow members of %wheel run any command. Not sure why.

Thanks,
Chris