Reboot

Landry Breuil landry.breuil at gmail.com
Mon May 26 21:59:16 CEST 2008


On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Anders Lind <sunshinecoast at swipnet.se> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 May 2008 19:17:33 +0000
> Sébastien Morand <seb.morand at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm user of XFCE under FreeBSD, and I can't suceed in getting other
>> button than log out working
>>
>> Whenever I try to reboot, I can't, the XFCE just logout. The restart
>> and shutdown button are enabled, So I can't click on them, but the
>> system just logout. So i read several manueal and everyting look like
>> ok, is there any solution to get it working?
>>
>> Thanks by advance,
>>
>> Sebastien
>
> Hello Sebastien,
>
> I also use Xfce under FreeBSD and I have the same thing, but I figure
> that it has to do with that you need to root to restart or shutdown and
> you are logged in as a user in Xfce.

Under OpenBSD, there's a readme file hinting you to configure sudoers like this:

$your_username ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/local/libexec/xfsm-shutdown-helper

But the source may be patched to disable those two buttons.. bug
FreeBSD maintainer to fix it :)

Landry



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