[SOLVED]Openbox shutdown issue

Inxsible · 2009-01-22 23:48:59

I have added shutdown and reboot capabilities to a standard openbox menu. The reboot works fine but the shutdown has some issues. When I select "Shutdown" my X stops responding and the only thing i can do is kill X (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace) and then issue a shutdown command manually.

This is my relevant openbox menu entry

  <menu id="quit-menu" label="Quit">
    <item label="Log Out">
      <action name="Exit">
    <prompt>yes</prompt>
      </action>
    </item>
    <item label="Reboot">
      <action name="Execute">
    <command>sudo shutdown -r now</command>
      </action>
    </item>
    <item label="Shutdown">
      <action name="Execute">
    <command>sudo shutdown -h now</command>
      </action>
    </item>
  </menu>

and I have added this line at the end of the sudoers file

 inxsible ALL=NOPASSWD:/sbin/shutdown

Why is it that reboot works and shutdown doesn't?

Last edited by Inxsible (2009-01-23 00:30:14)

.:B:. · 2009-01-23 00:05:26

Try putting in the absolute path, reconfigure Openbox and see if that helps.

Fyi - I have defined an ACPI action (like documented in the wiki) so all I have to do is press the power button to shut down. The entries in my Openbox menu only list rebooting and suspending to RAM .

Inxsible · 2009-01-23 00:11:09

B wrote:

Try putting in the absolute path, reconfigure Openbox and see if that helps.
Fyi - I have defined an ACPI action (like documented in the wiki) so all I have to do is press the power button to shut down. The entries in my Openbox menu only list rebooting and suspending to RAM .

Using the absolute path didn't help. It still froze my X and I had to kill it and manually issue shutdown. Seems strange that the same damn thing works for reboot but not for shutdown.

I will have a look at you ACPI action in the wiki. Thanks

.:B:. · 2009-01-23 00:21:07

Well I have it here anyway so...

[stijn@hermes ~]$ cat /etc/acpi/events/power
# This is called when the user presses the power button

event=button/power (PWR.||PBTN)
action=/sbin/poweroff

Restart acpid and enjoy .

It's also funny to have people see you press that button and everything goes out. 'Oh no you cannot do that! That is bad for your system!'

Inxsible · 2009-01-23 00:23:32

B wrote:

Well I have it here anyway so...
[stijn@hermes ~]$ cat /etc/acpi/events/power
# This is called when the user presses the power button

event=button/power (PWR.||PBTN)
action=/sbin/poweroff
Restart acpid and enjoy .
It's also funny to have people see you press that button and everything goes out. 'Oh no you cannot do that! That is bad for your system!'
Windows users eeh .

Already got it from the Wiki. acpid doesnt seem to wanna start. it says device or resource busy.

I will try a reboot and see.

Hopefully it should work. BUT it still irks me that the /sbin/shutdown option doesn't work for shutdown but works for reboot. GRRRRRRRRRR !!!!

Inxsible · 2009-01-23 00:29:50

Sweet !!!!

.:B:. · 2009-01-23 01:33:08

Glad you got it to work .

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#1 2009-01-22 23:48:59

[SOLVED]Openbox shutdown issue

#2 2009-01-23 00:05:26

Re: [SOLVED]Openbox shutdown issue

#3 2009-01-23 00:11:09

Re: [SOLVED]Openbox shutdown issue

#4 2009-01-23 00:21:07

Re: [SOLVED]Openbox shutdown issue

#5 2009-01-23 00:23:32

Re: [SOLVED]Openbox shutdown issue

#6 2009-01-23 00:29:50

Re: [SOLVED]Openbox shutdown issue

#7 2009-01-23 01:33:08

Re: [SOLVED]Openbox shutdown issue

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