Cannot shutdown the computer via XBMC

Hund · 2010-04-23 15:11:28

I cannot shutdown my HTPC via XBMC. When I try to shut it down, I just ends up back in the shell. Im not running any WM and I autostart XBMC via .xinitrc so I have to make a hard shutdown everytime.

Dunno what to do?

Last edited by Hund (2011-01-04 23:52:54)

brisbin33 · 2010-04-23 16:03:39

is your xbmc user in the power group?

do you start it via ck-launch in xinitrc?

my htpc has both of these things and it shuts down fine from xbmc; i was actually surprised it worked so quickly out-of-the-box (i expected some sudo hackery to be required...).

Hund · 2010-04-23 20:08:38

Yepp, I am.

Never heard of ck-launch.I had a look at the website, but it wasnt much of a helper. How does it work?

brisbin33 · 2010-04-23 20:35:32

take a look at the last code block here

Hund · 2010-04-23 20:47:21

That didnt work. XBMC wouldn start.

Hund · 2010-04-29 03:20:48

No one?

.:B:. · 2010-04-29 13:30:05

What brisbin suggested is the way to go; maybe the wiki page is a bit outdated, but that's how it's working here too. I can restart Xbmc, shutdown and reboot (and suspend, but haven't tried that) the system from within Xbmc, thanks to using ck-launch to start my session.

Hund · 2010-05-02 18:44:17

exec /usr/bin/ck-launch-session xbmc

That worked.

Last edited by Hund (2010-05-02 18:44:28)

seriouslycgi · 2010-05-04 10:17:23

i just su then poweroff

Hund · 2010-05-04 10:22:02

seriouslycgi wrote:

i just su then poweroff

It's my HTPC.I only have a Logitech DiNovo Mini.

Hund · 2011-01-04 23:52:43

Ever since I upgraded XBMC to 10.0 the problem is back. I have the same installation with Arch.

.:B:. · 2011-01-05 04:48:48

There have been topics about that on the forum; I suggest you perform a search.

Hint: look in xbmc's optdepends.

Hund · 2011-01-05 05:04:23

Thanks! I googled, but didnt come up with anything.

TigTex · 2011-01-05 15:32:20

well... make sure you have upower installed... (and udisks).
and also check if the powerbutton default action is "shutdown" and not "exit" (xbmc settings)

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lynix · 2011-02-26 17:08:47

Same problem here since an upgrade to the recent xbmc version.

- hal removed
- udisks and upower installed
- my user is in the 'power' group

I start X via /etc/inittab:

x:5:respawn:/bin/su lynix -l -c "/bin/bash --login -c 'startx xbmc'>/dev/null 2>&1"

and my .xinitrc is:

#!/bin/sh

nvidia-settings -l

if [ "$2" == "xbmc" ]; then
    # start XBMC
    exec ck-launch-session /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/xbmc --standalone -fs --debug &>$HOME/.xsession-errors
else
    # start openbox session
    exec ck-launch-session openbox-session &>$HOME/.xsession-errors
fi

Any hints what could be wrong?

.:B:. · 2011-02-26 17:23:29

Not the same problem. I started a thread about this a while ago, it's a problem with ck-launch-session registering your auto-login session as remote, thus not granting shutdown/reboot/suspend/... powers.

Open a separate topic if it doesn't work. Good luck.

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