On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 09:35:41PM -0600, John Morris wrote:
>
> Also just another problem, can't shutdown. Shutdown in a session just
> logs out and all of the shutdown, reboot, suspend, etc. options are
> greyed out in lightdm. Login as root and 'shutdown -h now' does work at
> least. But the login also showed a systemd-logind error about
> consolekit. Yanking this turd out by the roots is going to be
> difficult. And it will get worse monthly.

I have the same problem running Debian Jessie on my laptop. A few
months ago all these items became greyed out and inoperative. Pressing
the power button, though, instead of just turning off the power,
started a proper shutdown.

-- hendrik