xfce4-session: halt does not work using sudo

[Jesse Wagner]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:28:41 +0100, "Francois Le Clainche"
<fleclainche at wanadoo.fr> said:
> Le lundi 26 janvier 2004 à 17:47, Benedikt Meurer a écrit:
> 
> > >Hi,
>  
> > Hello Francois,
> 
> Hi Benny,
> 
> > >Looks like the halt command from the xfce4-session logout dialog is
> > >broken when using sudo /sbin/halt. The same command works from cli.  I
> > >receive the "Got no way to shutdown the system. You should ask..." popup
> > >all the time.
> > >
> > >Reboot works.
> > >
> > >No debug info to provide...
> > 
> > I'm sorry, but I really don't know what could be wrong here.
> 
> Hm...
> 
> I can just confirm the problem. Since I use checkinstall to build Debian
> XFce packages from CVS, I've installed an old xfce4-session package
> (built in december the 30th), and halt works with this one. Then I've
> rebuild the SM from CVS again, and halt does not work anymore.
> 
> Weird. Is there a way for me to provide useful informations?
> 

You are probably just replacing /usr/sbin/xfce4-shutdown and
/usr/etc/xfce4/shutdown.allow w/ the new install.

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