xfce: unable to perform shutdown

[Masato Hashimoto]

Hi José,

Please see:
http://wiki.xfce.org/faq#session_manager
Subsection "I'm unable to shutdown or restart my computer when running Xfce."

If you use PolicyKit, try to edit /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf as follows
(Replace USER to your user, or remove <match user=""> tag to allow all users):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- XML -*- -->

<!DOCTYPE pkconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Configuration 1.0//EN"
"http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit/1.0/config.dtd">

<!-- See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format -->

<config version="0.1">

  <match user="USER">
      <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.shutdown">
                     <return result="yes"/>
      </match>
      <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.reboot">
                     <return result="yes"/>
      </match>
  </match>

</config>


On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:13:07 -0200
José Romildo Malaquias <j.romildo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> When shutting down my ~amd64 gentoo system running XFCE, the system
> does not shut down and I receive the following error message, and then
> the XFCE session is closed.
> 
> Unable to perform shutdown
> error: org.freedesktop.Hal.Error: Could not determine whether caller
> is privileged
> org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Error
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> Romildo
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HASHIMOTO, Masato