Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

[German]

On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 03:35:49 -0400
Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.developer@×××××××.com> wrote:

> On Sunday, March 22, 2015 3:30:49 AM German wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 03:19:50 -0400
> > Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.developer@×××××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sunday, March 22, 2015 3:06:59 AM German wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 08:49:54 +0200
> > > > Matti Nykyri <matti.nykyri@×××.fi> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > On Mar 22, 2015, at 8:32, German <gentgerman@×××××.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > /sbin/poweroff says "Must be a superuser" :(
> > > > >
> > > > > Did you read any of the previous messages? They told you that you have
> to
> > > have consolekit and polkit installed and configured for this to work!
> > > >
> > > > Yes, I've read them. However no one explianed how this has to be
> > > accomplished with polkit and consolekit.
> > >
> > > You don't need those. It sounds like you somehow got both sysvinit and
> systemd
> > > installed. The message you're getting is from sysvinit. poweroff should be
> a
> > > symlink to systemctl. Try:
> > >
> > > systemctl poweroff
> > >
> > > You may need to unmerge sysvinit and anything else related to openrc and
> then
> > > re-emerge systemd. With systemd it should either shutdown or ask you for
> the
> > > root password (if you're not logged in locally or there's other users
> logged
> >
> > Thanks, I decide to go with sudo on this one. However when I try to run it,
> it says:
> > "Username is not in the sudoers file." Where is this file located and how can
> I add the user to it? Thanks
> >
> > > in).
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
> See man sudo.

It is huge and my head is spinning. A simple search on the web showed that I had just to add one line to "sudoers" file.
Now I am able to poweroff with sudo.


 But the advice you're getting is for openrc (it will work until 
> something else breaks), you need to remove all openrc components and install
> systemd properly.

Why is openRC is installed at all if I need to remove it? 

> --
> Fernando Rodriguez
>


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