On 2019-01-28 18:16, Mark Hindley wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 03:04:30PM -0600, golinux@??? wrote:
>> Hi Mark and Andreas,
>>
>> The latest update broke my beowulf VM a bit. Shutdown no longer works.
>> It
>> cycles back to the login screen and the pkexec launcher I created for
>> synaptic is doa.
>
> Hmmm. Sorry about that.
>
> Are you using elogind or consolekit?
>

dpkg-query: package 'consolekit' is not installed and no information is
available

Seems I am using elogind but I'm a bit lost without synaptic.

dpkg -s elogind
Package: elogind
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 2021
Maintainer: Andreas Messer <andi@???>
Architecture: i386
Multi-Arch: foreign
Version: 239.1+20181115-1
Provides: logind
Depends: libacl1 (>= 2.2.51-8), libc6 (>= 2.27), libselinux1 (>=
2.0.65), libudev1, libelogind0 (= 239.1+20181115-1), lsb-base (>= 3.1),
dbus (>= 1.9.14)
Pre-Depends: debconf
Recommends: policykit-1
Conflicts: systemd
Conffiles:
/etc/elogind/logind.conf 2693076c0a1244a9f53cb144b5c64e85
/etc/init.d/elogind 53e087a6d0e7207b017c14bd458d64b7
Description: user, seat and session management daemon
elogind is a session management daemon extracted from systemd project's
"logind"
Homepage: https://github.com/elogind/elogind

> What is logged in /var/log/auth.log when you run pkexec?
>

Not readable. I tried a few iso codes from the very long list but none
could read it. UI was root at the time.

"The document was not UTF-8 valid
Invalid byte sequence in conversion input."

I installed Xfce with slim from the mini.iso in December. At one point
I got everything working but now there are permission failures.

Thanks for your help.

> Mark
>