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From:	dhk <dhkuhl@×××××××××.net>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc:	xfce@××××.org
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] xfce: unable to perform shutdown
Date:	Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:25:27
Message-Id:	`4B425C77.60801@optonline.net`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] xfce: unable to perform shutdown by "José Romildo Malaquias"

1	José Romildo Malaquias wrote:
2	> Hello.
3	>
4	> When shutting down my ~amd64 gentoo system running XFCE, the system
5	> does not shut down and I receive the following error message, and then
6	> the XFCE session is closed.
7	>
8	> Unable to perform shutdown
9	> error: org.freedesktop.Hal.Error: Could not determine whether caller
10	> is privileged
11	> org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Error
12	>
13	> Any clues?
14	>
15	> Romildo
16	>
17	>
18
19	I had a similar problem. I think I fixed it by adding "hal" the the USE
20	variable in the /etc/make.conf file. Then doing an "emerge -uDN world".
21
22	dave