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| From: | Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | XFCE general discussion list <xfce@××××.org> | ||
| Cc: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | [gentoo-user] Re: xfce: unable to perform shutdown | ||
| Date: | Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:39:21 | ||
| Message-Id: | 68b1e2611001040338m1ff86ba2s56c60a577f0ae645@mail.gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] xfce: unable to perform shutdown by "José Romildo Malaquias" |
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| 1 | On 1/4/10, José Romildo Malaquias <j.romildo@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 2 | > When shutting down my ~amd64 gentoo system running XFCE, the system |
| 3 | > does not shut down and I receive the following error message, and then |
| 4 | > the XFCE session is closed. |
| 5 | > |
| 6 | > Unable to perform shutdown |
| 7 | > error: org.freedesktop.Hal.Error: Could not determine whether caller |
| 8 | > is privileged |
| 9 | > org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Error |
| 10 | > |
| 11 | > Any clues? |
| 12 | > |
| 13 | Yes. Something similar is happening on amd64 Debian systems (see |
| 14 | [1][2]). The only workaround that I'm aware of sofar is to make sure |
| 15 | no root programs are running when hitting the shutdown/restart button. |
| 16 | Liviu |
| 17 | |
| 18 | [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-xfce-devel/2009-April/008492.html |
| 19 | [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@××××××××××××.org/msg553778.html |