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#1 2012-11-17 17:12:32

mich04
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E17 Unable to mount or power off machine with regular user [Solved]

Hello,
I was just setting up a new pc and noticed that Arch uses systemd now. I installed e17 and I just want to get a regular user the ability to mount and unmount drives. I also want to give them to be able to power off the machine. I installed slim and it the computer will now boot to the slim login menu. What is the procedure to get permissions working?

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#2 2012-11-17 17:18:02

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Re: E17 Unable to mount or power off machine with regular user [Solved]

Woops unmounting and mounting seem to be working, I am just having a problem with e17's suspend, reboot, power off options. They are greyed out when I am signed on as a regular user but work just fine when I am signed in as root.


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#3 2012-11-17 18:07:37

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Re: E17 Unable to mount or power off machine with regular user [Solved]

I'd suggest you search the forums a bit more, as there are tonnes of posts about issues with particularly slim and other wm's having greyed out shutdown, etc. buttons.  Not all are solved either.

edit:  I still have E17 installed on my desktop but seldom use it.  I just tried it out now and there are no problems with shutdown, reboot, etc. on my end.  I use xdm with xdm-archlinux theme, not slim, so that may indeed be your problem.

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#4 2012-11-17 19:32:25

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Re: E17 Unable to mount or power off machine with regular user [Solved]

There's a list of groups in /etc/enlightenment/sysactions.conf. If your user isn't a member of one of those groups, you won't be able to use the power options.

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#5 2012-11-17 19:55:46

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Re: E17 Unable to mount or power off machine with regular user [Solved]

@Scimmia: There's nothing special in my /etc/enlightenment/sysactions.conf and I'm not in any group other than users so I don't think that will help the OP, IMHO.

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#6 2012-11-17 20:30:27

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Re: E17 Unable to mount or power off machine with regular user [Solved]

bgc1954, that file is all about giving permissions for various system actions, it could very easily be the OP's issue. The default is set to deny permission for any system actions unless given specific permission either as a named user or part of a named group. I know my suspend/hibernate/shutdown/etc were greyed out when I removed myself from most groups after upgrading to systemd.

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#7 2012-11-17 21:01:05

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Re: E17 Unable to mount or power off machine with regular user [Solved]

Scimmia - I apologize as I just checked my groups and I was still a member of the wheel group--although I don't remember doing that, but my installation is several years old.  When I took myself out of the wheel group my shutdown, etc buttons were indeed greyed out so the systemd wiki isn't quite correct when it says that you don't have to be in any groups anymore.

edit: so the OP has the option to edit the /etc/enlightenment/sysactions.conf or just add him/herself to the wheel group, I guess.

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#8 2012-11-17 22:06:00

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Re: E17 Unable to mount or power off machine with regular user [Solved]

I had the same problem with e17 and added a line

user:    myusername      allow: *

to that file /etc/enlightenment/sysactions.conf

and that did the job for me. I found that I think on this forum or somewhere on google, it was only a few days ago, but don't exactly remember where.

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#9 2012-11-18 04:53:17

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Re: E17 Unable to mount or power off machine with regular user [Solved]

That did not work here is my conf file now.

user: family  allow: halt reboot suspend hibernate
action:   halt      /sbin/shutdown -h now
action:   reboot    /sbin/shutdown -r now
action:   suspend   /usr/sbin/pm-suspend
action:   hibernate /usr/sbin/pm-hibernate
action:   /bin/mount /bin/mount
action:   /bin/umount /bin/umount
action:   /usr/bin/eject /usr/bin/eject
user:     root      allow: *
group:    operator  allow: *
group:    staff     allow: *
group:    admin     allow: *
group:    sys       allow: *
group:    wheel     allow: *
group:    adm       allow: *
group:    dialout   allow: *
group:    disk      allow: *
group:    adm       allow: *
group:    cdrom     allow: *
group:    floppy    allow: *
group:    audio     allow: *
group:    dip       allow: *
group:    plugdev   allow: *
group:    netdev    allow: *
group:    bluetooth allow: *
group:    video     allow: *
group:    voice     allow: *
group:    fax       allow: *
group:    tty       allow: *
user:     *         deny:  *

I tried giving user all the power as well with the
user: family allow: *

Before when I had this problem I added consolekit in the initab with slim, but now arch uses systemd which I am not familier with. Any other ideas, I have been reading searching other post believe me. With the changes in Arch, the solutions I have been finding are old and outdated.


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#10 2012-11-18 06:28:18

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Re: E17 Unable to mount or power off machine with regular user [Solved]

Assuming the username you're using is "family", I think we're back to bgc1954's solution. Ditch Slim for something like lxdm that's known to work well with logind.

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#11 2012-11-18 06:47:13

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Re: E17 Unable to mount or power off machine with regular user [Solved]

if Its any help, I'm using lxdm as well, and it works no problem

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#12 2012-11-18 14:08:30

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Re: E17 Unable to mount or power off machine with regular user [Solved]

I tried lxdm, and gdm both provide the same results. I also added my user to the group wheel.


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#13 2012-11-18 14:27:16

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Re: E17 Unable to mount or power off machine with regular user [Solved]

I also installed lxde with lxdm and booted up that desktop. I still do not have access to shutdown etc. I can mount all my drives just no power options.


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#14 2012-11-18 15:56:55

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Re: E17 Unable to mount or power off machine with regular user [Solved]

Getting back to basics, what's in your .xinitrc file when you had one for slim?  What does

# systemctl status polkit.service

show you?  Are you sure you're running a pure systemd system?  Is your system fully up to date?  Also maybe it's this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1187801

Edit:  also, check to see that you have systemd-sysvcompat installed as it has the links to the shutdown, reboot options.

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#15 2012-11-19 12:53:45

mich04
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Re: E17 Unable to mount or power off machine with regular user [Solved]

1. What I used to do
.xinitrc
   exec enlightenment_start
slim.conf
login_cmd exec dbus-launch /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session

systemctl status polkit.service
polkit.service - Authorization Manager
	  Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service; static)
	  Active: active (running) since Mon, 2012-11-19 06:45:47 CST; 4min 41s ago
	    Docs: man:polkit(8)
	Main PID: 391 (polkitd)
	  CGroup: name=systemd:/system/polkit.service
		  └ 391 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug

I am running a pure systemd system. I was very confused when I could not find rc.d

systemd-sysvcompact is installed


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#16 2013-09-16 02:18:35

mich04
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Re: E17 Unable to mount or power off machine with regular user [Solved]

So I installed Arch again yesterday on a new laptop and ran into the e17 no power option problem. Here is my solution.
these lines must be in.

/etc/enlightenment/sysactions.conf


action:   halt      /sbin/shutdown -h now
action:   reboot    /sbin/shutdown -r now
action:   suspend   /etc/acpi/sleep.sh force
action:   hibernate /etc/acpi/hibernate.sh force
user:  BOB  allow: halt reboot suspend hibernate

I am running e17 with slim login. Sorry for resurrecting an old thread but it kept topping my google search.


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