Shutdown and restart not always working - continued

[Chris G]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 01:48:24PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 18:29 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:22:52PM +0100, Christian Dywan wrote:
> > > Am Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:55:00 +0000
> > > schrieb Chris G <cl at isbd.net>:
> > > 
> > > > Well I took a look at the documentation on how this is supposed to
> > > > work and I took a look at what actually happens on xubuntu 8.10, with
> > > > the following results.
> > > 
> > > Hey Chris,
> > > 
> > > did you read this?
> > > 
> > > http://wiki.xfce.org/faq#session_manager
> > > 
> > > Those are instructions which are commonly given to users asking in the
> > > #xfce IRC channel on Freenode. And they are known to work well.
> > > 
> > Yes, it's the piece I quoted in my E-Mail.
> > 
> > 
> > > It strikes me as a mistake of the package maintainer of Xubuntu if this
> > > doesn't work out of the box, though.
> > > 
> > It works "out of the box" for the installation user via the sudo
> > mechanism, however it won't work for other users unless you do some
> > configuration. 
> 
> You should be able to do the following for group adding for a user (as
> root or equivalent) on *buntu and Debian:
> 
> 	adduser <username> <groupname>
> 
Yes, but the group required doesn't appear to exist.

> That adds an existing user to an existing group. On my Debian machines I
> have adjusted my default group memberships to for "console users" to be:
> 
> 	cdrom floppy sudo audio video plugdev users netdev powerdev
> 
There's no powerdev group on a default xubuntu installation.

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Chris Green