On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 19:53:38 -0700 (PDT) Rusi Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, October 18, 2014 11:40:01 PM UTC+5:30, Nate Bargmann > wrote: > > No, this is not a troll (seems like that is necessary to state up > > front). I have been experimenting with dropping systemd from my > > laptop running Sid but find that even with xfce4-power-manager > > suspend nor hibernate are available any more unless I install the > > policykit-1 package recommended by the upower package which depends > > on libpam-systemd which, even if I install systemd-shim, also > > installs the systemd package as a dependency, even though it won't > > run as PID 1. > > Just a heads up. > xfce on jessie with systemd > > A couple of weeks ago in trying to get round some dependency issues > I needed to install policykit that did: > > libpolkit-agent-1-0 (0.105-6.1) > libpolkit-backend-1-0 (0.105-6.1) > policykit-1 (0.105-6.1) > > After that direct poweroff from the xfce panel has stopped working > ie whether I choose logout or shutdown, it only logs out, ie closes > startx and puts me back in console shell. > > [Oh and BTW about 6 months or so back gdm stopped working and Ive > switched to startx > ] There's a certain irony. First, IMHO startx is better than booting directly to GUI. Secondly, now that stopping X gets you to the command prompt, you can type whatever shutdown/reboot/poweroff command you want. Unless those were messed up too. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141019002453.34efc...@mydesq2.domain.cxm
