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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Was: What the devil?!!] sddm shutdown & reboot
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 15:13:44
Message-Id: 20190626161319.2a36588f@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: [Was: What the devil?!!] sddm shutdown & reboot by Mick
1 On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 15:15:37 +0100, Mick wrote:
2
3 > > > [General]
4 > > > # Halt command
5 > > > HaltCommand=/usr/bin/loginctl poweroff
6 > > >
7 > > > In an OpenRC system there is no loginctl. Consequently, unless we
8 > > > define a separate config in /etc/ to use shutdown (with sudo?) it
9 > > > won't work. This systemd-ism may be worth a bug report.
10 > >
11 > > It won't work on systemd either, loginctl has no poweroff command, it
12 > > should be systemctl poweroff, which is symlinked to /sbin/poweroff
13 > > here so setting it to that should work for modern and ancient systems
14 > > alike :P
15 >
16 > Could it be loginctl is there to confirm if a local button operation
17 > can run / sbin/poweroff, rather than actually running the command as
18 > shown in the sddm config file?
19
20 No, not when I tried it
21
22 % loginctl poweroff
23 Unknown operation poweroff.
24
25 This is confirmed by the list of commands in the loginctl man page.
26
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28 --
29 Neil Bothwick
30
31 C Error #029: Well! I'm impressed

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Was: What the devil?!!] sddm shutdown & reboot Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes@×××××.com>