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jimmarch

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Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 27

The whole Gnome "shutdown/restart/logout" process isn't working?

It WAS working at one point, then I did some tweaking on daemons in rc.conf and...something is halting my ability to do anything under the shutdown menu (or button) in Gnome.  The shutdown window itself crashes and a message comes up that it's not responding.

Here's my daemons from rc.conf:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond ntpd hal cups gdm alunnd)

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Update: before posting this I tried adding acpid - including to the daemons list above and "pacman -S acpid".  No joy there.

This isn't the "showstopper" that lack of USB disk access (see other thread) is because "shutdown -r/-h now" works, but...it's annoying.

Thanks,

Jim

AlmaMater

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Registered: 2007-02-28

Posts: 92

Re: The whole Gnome "shutdown/restart/logout" process isn't working?

I think, u need to had  "dbus" to DAEMONS in rc.conf

and add your user to the "power" group 

addicionally, olso to the "dbus" and "hal" group

jimmarch

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Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 27

Re: The whole Gnome "shutdown/restart/logout" process isn't working?

Nope...that didn't help.

Sigh.

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: The whole Gnome "shutdown/restart/logout" process isn't working?

you have to run /etc/rc.d/network start (or put network in DAEMONS line again). I don't know why gnome is so stupid.

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shadeheim

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Registered: 2006-11-14

Posts: 29

Re: The whole Gnome "shutdown/restart/logout" process isn't working?

I've added my user to dbus, power and hal and I have dbus, hal and network as daemons. I still don't see a shutdown button. Do I need gdm running?

Last edited by shadeheim (2007-08-09 18:36:15)

Mikko777

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From: Suomi, Finland

Registered: 2006-10-30

Posts: 837

Re: The whole Gnome "shutdown/restart/logout" process isn't working?

Do I need gdm running?

Yes.

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CavalierBob

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From: San Francisco Bay Area

Registered: 2006-07-20

Posts: 110

Re: The whole Gnome "shutdown/restart/logout" process isn't working?

You can remove alunnd. lessthanjake rewrote ALUNN so it does not require the daemon now. I am assuming you are running the current ALUNN release from [community].

With that change, making gdm the last in the list, we will have nearly identical rc.conf files (I use openntpd).

FWIW, I notice that my user is not a member of the hal, dbus, or power groups and the shutdown/reboot/logout menus are working fine in Gnome here. I know that is not very helpful, but since our setups sound somewhat similar perhaps we can spot the difference that WILL help

Bob