No shut down or reboot options in LXDE after upgrade

[nawitus]

I did a large system update 2 days ago, and now the option to shut down the computer is missing from the "logout panel" in LXDE. There's only suspend, hibernate and logout options. I can shut the computer down using "sudo shutdown -h now", though. My user account is in power group. When I run "lxsession-logout", I get the error message '** (lxsession-logout:1486): WARNING **: dbus-interface.c:94: DBUS: The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files' in terminal. I have the package upower and pm-utils installed. I don't have HAL and I don't plan to install that.

I'm not using any login manager.

Some info:
linux 3.5.3-1
lxde-common 0.5.5-2
lxdm 0.4.1-14
openbox 3.5.0-7
lxsession 0.4.6.1-1
lxpanel 0.5.10-1

[seppalta]

I think installing a display manager would eliminate your problem. I like lightdm:

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sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends lightdm

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Doing the no-install-recommends only adds 1603 kb to your system. This does replace the heavy, colorful backgrounds the few seconds when logging in and out with just bright one-color backgrounds.

[nawitus]

I already have a display manager installed: lxdm.

[seppalta]

Since you said you did not have a "login manager", I presumed you did not have a display manager since the display manager does the log-in. I have found lxdm to be a bit erratic. You might try re-installing or replacing it.

[nawitus]

Ah, actually it seems that lxdm is not used in my system. It was simply installed as part of the lxde package group in my Arch Linux setup. I don't want to use lxdm either, I'm just launching straight into lxde.

Portion from /etc/inittab

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id:5:initdefault:

rc::sysinit:/etc/rc.sysinit
rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single
rm:2345:wait:/etc/rc.multi
rh:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown
su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p

# -8 options fixes umlauts problem on login
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin nawi tty1 linux

My .xinitrc

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#!/bin/sh
xbindkeys &
exec ck-launch-session startlxde

From pstree:

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    ├─login───xinit─┬─X
    │               └─ck-launch-sessi─┬─lxsession─┬─lxpanel
    │                                 │           ├─openbox
    │                                 │           ├─pcmanfm
    │                                 │           └─{lxsession}
    │                                 └─xbindkeys

[rokytnji]

I needed to install hal on my core install to get correct shutdown reboot menu gui to show up in my Debian Testing LXDE install.


http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=31330

Though I have read on this forum that

http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?p=38354#p38354

[nawitus]

I didn't have HAL before system upgrade and the reboot and shutdown buttons worked fine.

[rokytnji]

I didn't have HAL before system upgrade and the reboot and shutdown buttons worked fine.

I guess you missed the part about

Though I have read on this forum that

Re: Cannot shutdown or reboot lxde from lxde-logout menu

Postby rockdoctor » Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:05 am
I see the same problem in Fedora Rawhide. I believe it's related to the problems with lxpolkit.

http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?id=2481

http://www.mail-archive.com/blfs-dev@li ... 13379.html

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=142110

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1148545

[nawitus]

Thanks for your links. I've read them, but what do you suggest me to do? HAL is deprecated in Arch Linux, so I don't want to install that.