Devuan bug report logs - #275
Policykit-1: can't poweroff or restart from xfce user menu

Package: policykit-1; Reported by: =?utf-8?Q?Jos=C3=A9_Marinho?= <[email protected]>; Done: Mark Hindley <[email protected]>; Maintainer for policykit-1 is Devuan Dev Team <[email protected]>.

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Subject: Fixed with policykit-1_0.105-25+devuan1
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Fixed with policykit-1 version 0.105-25+devuan1 built for ceres and beowulf
which adds -elogind and -consolekit flavour libpolkit backends.


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This solution: https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20190129.061245.464347ee.en.html works for me. Now I can poweroff, restart and mount external devices too.


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Hi,

I append more info from /var/log/syslog file:

Dec 29 10:43:03 beowulf dbus-daemon[1854]: [system] Activating service name=
=3D'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' requested by ':1.38' (uid=3D1000 pid=3D2746=
 comm=3D"xfce4-session ") (using servicehelper)
Dec 29 10:43:03 beowulf dbus-daemon[1854]: [system] Activated service 'org.=
freedesktop.PolicyKit1' failed: Launch helper exited with unknown return co=
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Package: policykit-1
Version: 0.105-23
Severity: important

I think that it is a similar issue as this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin=
/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D765383

I can't poweroff restart and do other actions like mount external volumes.

The system session manager is slim.


lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:=09Devuan
Description:=09Devuan GNU/Linux beowulf/ceres
Release:=0910
Codename:=09n/a

uname -r
4.18.0-3-amd64


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