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jalu

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SLiM - Cannot shut down from GNOME when using SLiM

I recently installed SLiM. To have it run at boot I used the inittab method described at this page.

After I log in with SLiM, GNOME starts with the following problems:
- External hard disks are not automatically mounted.
- System > Shut Down has disappeared, making it impossible for me to shut down directly from GNOME.
- Even opening a terminal and executing sudo shutdown now just brings me back to SLiM.

I never had these problems with GDM. Does anybody know what could be causing this?

Last edited by jalu (2009-08-13 17:53:48)

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Re: SLiM - Cannot shut down from GNOME when using SLiM

Do you launch policykit together with gnome? If not, then do that.

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jalu

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Re: SLiM - Cannot shut down from GNOME when using SLiM

Thanks for the info, Mr.Elendig!

How do I launch PolicyKit with GNOME? I've searched around a bit, and came across an article that mentions editing PolicyKit.conf to manually allow certain privileges. Is that what I need to do, or is it simpler than that?

thieste

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Re: SLiM - Cannot shut down from GNOME when using SLiM

Thanks for the info, Mr.Elendig!

How do I launch PolicyKit with GNOME? I've searched around a bit, and came across an article that mentions editing PolicyKit.conf to manually allow certain privileges. Is that what I need to do, or is it simpler than that?

It is simpler

Open the .xinitrc File in your Home Directory and change

exec gnome-session

to

exec ck-launch-session gnome-session

Last edited by thieste (2009-08-14 05:38:31)

jalu

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Re: SLiM - Cannot shut down from GNOME when using SLiM

exec ck-launch-session gnome-session

That seems to have done it! Great sleuthing, thieste! I knew there had to be a simple solution. I don't mind doing things that are hard (I am using Arch!), but it seemed that editing PolicyKit.conf would have been needlessly complex. Hurray for Unix simplicity!

Just out of curiosity - why did I not need to run PolicyKit when I was using GDM? Also, is there a reason this is not mentioned in the wiki page about login managers?

Thanks for all of your help, Mr.Elendig and thieste! The Arch community always comes through.

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Re: SLiM - Cannot shut down from GNOME when using SLiM

exec ck-launch-session gnome-session

That seems to have done it! Great sleuthing, thieste! I knew there had to be a simple solution. I don't mind doing things that are hard (I am using Arch!), but it seemed that editing PolicyKit.conf would have been needlessly complex. Hurray for Unix simplicity!

Just out of curiosity - why did I not need to run PolicyKit when I was using GDM? Also, is there a reason this is not mentioned in the wiki page about login managers?

Thanks for all of your help, Mr.Elendig and thieste! The Arch community always comes through.

Would like to know that also, I was wondering why my SLIM experiment had some problems...

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Re: SLiM - Cannot shut down from GNOME when using SLiM

exec ck-launch-session gnome-session

Just out of curiosity - why did I not need to run PolicyKit when I was using GDM? Also, is there a reason this is not mentioned in the wiki page about login managers?

Simple as that - gdm starts it automagically. I remember adding that to my .xinitrc a few months back, and I've been using slim for year and a half or so. I have no idea why it is not mentioned in the wiki, though.

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jalu

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Re: SLiM - Cannot shut down from GNOME when using SLiM

Simple as that - gdm starts it automagically. I remember adding that to my .xinitrc a few months back, and I've been using slim for year and a half or so. I have no idea why it is not mentioned in the wiki, though.

I'd be happy to add it to the wiki. Does ck-launch-session apply to pretty much everything but GDM?

Last edited by jalu (2009-08-15 19:48:22)

mcmillan

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Re: SLiM - Cannot shut down from GNOME when using SLiM

I'd be happy to add it to the wiki. Does ck-launch-session apply to pretty much everything but GDM?

KDM starts it automatically too

jalu

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Re: SLiM - Cannot shut down from GNOME when using SLiM

KDM starts it automatically too

Cool, thanks. Does anybody know if exec ck-launch-session gnome-session is required for the daemon method as well? I'm trying to decide where this best fits in the article on login managers. Or should this be mentioned in the article on desktop environments?

markg85

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Re: SLiM - Cannot shut down from GNOME when using SLiM

Hi,

I had this exact same issue as well and found the solution in this thread (thanx to thieste) so i took the liberty to add it in the Gnome wiki on archlinux.org: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNO … gnome_menu feel free to improve it if needed.

Btw. on that wiki.. how do i combine those 2 expressions in grep while maintaining the same output?

grey

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Re: SLiM - Cannot shut down from GNOME when using SLiM

First of all thanks for the answer. I had the same issue and didn't even know it was a solveable problem - I assumed this is the way SLIM is supposed to work.

But I'm puzzled by something in the first post, namely that sudo shutdown isn't working. I works for me, even without ck-launch-session, and I cannot think of a reason why it wouldn't.

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jalu

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Re: SLiM - Cannot shut down from GNOME when using SLiM

First of all thanks for the answer. I had the same issue and didn't even know it was a solveable problem - I assumed this is the way SLIM is supposed to work.

But I'm puzzled by something in the first post, namely that sudo shutdown isn't working. I works for me, even without ck-launch-session, and I cannot think of a reason why it wouldn't.

sudo shutdown did work for me. When I stated that I was unable to shut down directly from GNOME, I didn't count terminal emulators. Sorry for the ambiguity.