[Solved] Cannot poweroff/reboot in urxvt

LeftyAce · 2014-12-07 23:08:49

Hi all,

I'm running StumpWM with no desktop environment, and in the past was able to shut down the machine from within an xterm as a regular user using 'systemctl poweroff' (or systemctl reboot to reboot, etc). I recently started using urxvt in daemon mode as my console program because it seemed like a clean solution to having multiple consoles open. From within urxvt, when I try to run systemctl poweroff, I get the following error:

$ systemctl poweroff
Failed to execute operation: Interactive authentication required.
Failed to start poweroff.target: Interactive authentication required.

I can start an xterm and shutdown from there, or use Ctrl-Alt-F2 and log in to a non-X tty and shut down there, all as a regular user.

I've seen other posts where the information in loginctl session-status c1 was requested, so here it is:

$ loginctl session-status c1
c1 - Lefty (1000)
           Since: Sun 2014-12-07 16:51:25 CST; 13min ago
          Leader: 1104 (login)
            Seat: seat0; vc1
             TTY: tty1
         Service: login; type tty; class user
           State: active
            Unit: session-c1.scope
                  ├─1104 login -- Lefty
                  ├─3005 /bin/sh /usr/bin/startx
                  ├─3317 gpg-agent --daemon --enable-ssh-support --write-env-file /home/Lefty/.gnupg/gpg-agent.env
                  ├─4525 xinit /home/Lefty/.xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc :0 vt1 -auth /tmp/serverauth.SrQT9ulZaj
                  ├─4583 /usr/bin/Xorg.bin -nolisten tcp :0 vt1 -auth /tmp/serverauth.SrQT9ulZaj vt1
                  ├─5502 xf86-video-intel-backlight-helper acpi_video0
                  ├─6155 /home/Lefty/Downloads/Stumpwm/stumpwm/stumpwm
                  ├─7066 xulrunner /usr/share/conkeror/application.ini
                  ├─7097 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --autolaunch be7bdc12ca34453d943a6560e1975268 --binary-syntax --close-stderr
                  ├─7098 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
                  └─7224 /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin

It doesn't look like I'm showing up as a remote user. And the output is the same when run from an xterm. Any idea what I'm doing wrong in urxvt?

Thanks!

-Lefty

Last edited by LeftyAce (2014-12-08 17:09:55)

jasonwryan · 2014-12-07 23:30:38

How do you login and start X?

LeftyAce · 2014-12-07 23:38:51

I auto-login. /etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/autologin.conf looks like this:

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=
ExecStart=-/usr/bin/agetty --autologin owen --noclear %I 38400 linux

Then .bash_profile starts X:

[[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc

if [[ -z $DISPLAY ]] && ! [[ -e /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 ]] && (( EUID )); then
    exec startx
fi

And .xinitrc starts stumpwm (this is sounding more and more like a mess. I swear it works great :-)

rdb -merge ~/.Xresources
systemd --user &
sudo trackpoint
numlockx &
xset -dpms s off
exec /home/Lefty/Downloads/Stumpwm/stumpwm/stumpwm

jasonwryan · 2014-12-07 23:50:18

Odd. I have no problems with urxvt{c,d}. Does each instance of urxvtc inherit all your environment variables?

LeftyAce · 2014-12-07 23:55:45

It looks like all my environment variables are present in urxvtc. A few extras are present as well (COLORTERM, COLORFGBG).

jasonwryan · 2014-12-08 00:02:15

And other systemctl commands all work, presumably?

Is it just in daemon mode that you see this?

LeftyAce · 2014-12-08 03:10:30

It seems to only be a problem in daemon mode. If I start urxvt not in daemon mode I can power off as normal.

Other systemctl commands like systemctl list-units work fine in daemon mode.

jasonwryan · 2014-12-08 06:58:48

How (and where) are you starting urxvtd?

LeftyAce · 2014-12-08 15:16:18

I created a file called /etc/systemd/system/urxvtd@.service (based on this wiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/rx … gh_systemd ) and enabled it using

 systemctl enable urxvtd@lefty.service

jasonwryan · 2014-12-08 15:58:37

And if you just start it in your .xinitrc, it works fine...

urxvtd -q -o -f

LeftyAce · 2014-12-08 16:15:07

That works great, thank you so much! It seems I got led astray by the systemd/daemon section of the wiki page.

karol · 2014-12-08 16:16:45

What about the info in the wiki? Should it be fixed?

Last edited by karol (2014-12-08 16:17:25)

LeftyAce · 2014-12-08 16:53:27

The wiki page doesn't mention starting the daemon using .xinitrc at all. The section about using the daemon mode only describes two ways to start it through systemd (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/rx … gh_systemd).

At the very least, it looks like I should add a section on using the daemon/client setup in a single user system (through .xinitrc).

Is there a reason someone would _not_ want to run it this way? Does it cause problems for multi-user systems?

EDIT: I updated the page to include .xinitrc instructions and to add a note to the systemd section mentioning the problem with power on/power off. If anyone has more information about why the systemd configuration is desirable I would be happy to add that information as well.

Last edited by LeftyAce (2014-12-08 17:02:23)

jasonwryan · 2014-12-08 17:07:43

The second service file on that page includes the ENV: I suspect it is related to that.

I don't know why a service file is recommended, tbh. If you have an .xinitrc, it makes sense to start X-dependent apps in it.

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

LeftyAce · 2014-12-08 17:10:58

Done, thanks!

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