Op 08-04-15 om 23:45 schreef Brian: > On Wed 08 Apr 2015 at 19:07:05 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > >> I've made a Debian Jessie laptop for a customer, who does not want >> systemd. Because of dependencies with systemd I don't have policykit >> installed. >> >> When I do a "pm-suspend" as root the laptop comes into suspend state, >> but in XFCE the options are grey. >> >> When I do "xfce4-power-manager --dump" then I see that it can do suspend >> and hybernate, but is not authorized to do it. I think it will have to >> do with the missing policykit. >> >> Does somebody know here more? > > Perhaps you can be more detailed about two things? > > 1. What does your customer mean by "does not want systemd""? If this a > matter of not wanting systemd as the init system Jessie already > accomodates this.
Not sure if "not wanting systemd as the init system" is enough for my customer. Maybe she means: "I don't want the package systemd on my computer", what means that logind is not possible too. I speak her in a few days. > 2. What steps did you take to accomodate his wishes? I did install a normal installation with an XFCE desktop. Then I did: -------- apt-get install sysvinit-core sysvinit sysvinit-utils reboot apt-get remove --purge --auto-remove systemd echo -e 'Package: systemd\nPin: origin ""\nPin-Priority: -1' > \ /etc/apt/preferences.d/systemd -------- The "apt-get remove" step did remove much, too much, from the system, I would not use that again. It removed e.g. lightdm and task-xfce-desktop, but I could reinstall those packages without problems. Some other packages what are removed: gvfs-daemons, colord, packagekit, udisk2, policykit, hplip, network manager. The most work was network manager, but I've replaced that with wicd. The configuration of wifi was not easy, a few hints: rfkill list rfkill unblock all iwconfig ifconfig wlan0 up find the configuration in wicd, and configure the wlan device. With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer, Groningen http://www.vandervlis.nl/ -- 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/mg5c51$rqg$1...@ger.gmane.org
