On 04/12/2016 01:36 AM, Go Linux wrote:
> On Mon, 4/11/16, Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@???> wrote:
> On 04/11/2016 09:40 PM, Go Linux wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 4/11/16, Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@???> wrote:
>>>> Upon adding a GUI on top of a pre-existing cli-only install of
>>>> devuan-alpha-4, the functionality of suspend, hibernate, switch-users,
>>>> shutdown and restart were unavailable to the desktop user.
>>>>
>
> [snip]
>
>>>>
>>>> I don't yet have a working solution for 'switch-users', 'shutdown', or
>>>> 'restart'.
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Installing upower and libupower-glib1 from the devuan repos got the
>>> whole shebang working for me from the xfce panel and/or main menu. I
>>> suspect that xfce4-power-manager also has something to do with it.
>>
>>
>> My installed versions for upower, libupower-glib1:amd64, and
>> libupower-glib1:amd64 are all 1:0.9.23-2+devuan1.2
>>
>> The polkit actions:
>> org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop
>> org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart
>> org.freedesktop.consolekit.stop-multiple-users
>> org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart-multiple-users
>> seem to be those that would control the remaining issues, and the
>> installed version of consolekit is 0.4.6-5, from:
>> us.mirror.devuan.org_merged_dists_jessie_main_binary-amd64_Packages
>>
>> Do you get any ouput from running?:
>> find /etc/polkit-1/localauthority -type f -print -exec cat '{}' \;
>>
>> If so, could you post it?
>>
>
> That command didn't spit out a thing. Note that I am on 32 bit devuan if that might make a difference.
I'm assuming that when you installed devuan, you asked the installer to
install a desktop environment. If so, your result tells me that my
tweaks to the polkit configuration are unnecessary and not the way
devuan is enabling those features. That's important for a few reasons:

1] You didn't get an error message, which tells me devuan installed
polkit on your system. The next question is why.

1.1] Could you look at the result of running the following:

head -qn1 /var/log/dpkg.log*
grep -hm1 polkit /var/log/dpkg.log*

The first should tell us when you installed devuan, and the date of the
second's output is a proxy for telling whether the installer did the
deed itself, or whether whether apt/gdebi/etc did it later.

2] There shouldn't be more than one authorization agent operating. At
best, it's confusing to administer, and at worst could freeze a system.

3] The tweaks I performed are the way the polkit developers want the
system to work, and it did work for me, so what else is going on in
parallel in devuan?

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