On 2019-01-28 18:56, golinux@??? wrote:
> 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.
>

PS. Just discovered that USB drives are no longer mounting either.
Permission denied. It was working before the upgrade.

golinux