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From: Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What the devil?!! [or Plasma teething problems Ia.]
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 19:29:03
Message-Id: 48d85eb6-1afb-030b-cc73-cc16481ef9c1@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What the devil?!! [or Plasma teething problems Ia.] by Mick
1 On 6/26/19 8:16 AM, Mick wrote:
2 > On Wednesday, 26 June 2019 15:22:45 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 >> On Wednesday, 26 June 2019 11:20:20 BST Mick wrote:
4 >>> I just looked at another installation. The default sddm configuration
5 >>> file (/usr/share/sddm/sddm.conf.d/00default.conf) shows this:
6 >>>
7 >>> [General]
8 >>> # Halt command
9 >>> HaltCommand=/usr/bin/loginctl poweroff
10 >>>
11 >>> In an OpenRC system there is no loginctl. Consequently, unless we define
12 >>> a
13 >>> separate config in /etc/ to use shutdown (with sudo?) it won't work. This
14 >>> systemd-ism may be worth a bug report.
15 >>
16 >> Here, it shows 'HaltCommand=/sbin/shutdown -h -P now'.
17 >
18 > Where 'here' is ... where? :-)
19 >
20 > Your own /etc/sddm/ configuration file, or the default installed under /usr/
21 > share/sddm/sddm.conf.d/ ?
22 >
23 > The sddm package no longer installs a config file in etc. The user may do so
24 > if desired/required and modify it accordingly. However, the sample file
25 > offered by sddm has the above mentioned incongruity in it, which means the
26 > shutdown and reboot commands issued by its interface invariably do not work in
27 > openrc and it seems the same applies to systemd.
28 >
29 > I'll check a couple more of my installations here to see if they differ.
30 >
31
32 I don't have any /etc/sddm.conf - it's all default config and mine is
33 working with no tweaking (OpenRC). Same as mentioned above in the
34 default config file: HaltCommand=/sbin/shutdown -h -P now
35
36 Dan