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#1 2020-06-29 12:57:21

HevyDevy
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Registered: 2019-09-06
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Solved - xfce4 session issues

New beowulf stable bios install.

Having issues with xfce4 and loging out rebooting poweroff function.

Ive installed elogind and lightdm but when i try to logout it says

Failed to run action "Log Out..."

Session manager must be in idle state when requesting a shutdown

There is no session being saved even when i ask it too in session and startup.

 ps -ef | grep session

root      2019  1918  0 22:49 ?        00:00:00 lightdm --session-child 12 21
user     2040     1  0 22:49 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session --sh-syntax
user     2041     1  0 22:49 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --syslog --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
user     2050  2024  0 22:49 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-session
user     2414  2409  0 22:52 pts/0    00:00:00 grep session
 pstree

init─┬─Thunar───2*[{Thunar}]
     ├─accounts-daemon───2*[{accounts-daemon}]
     ├─bluetoothd
     ├─cron
     ├─2*[dbus-daemon]
     ├─dbus-launch
     ├─dhclient
     ├─elogind-daemon
     ├─6*[getty]
     ├─lightdm─┬─Xorg───2*[{Xorg}]
     │         ├─lightdm─┬─sh─┬─ssh-agent
     │         │         │    └─xfce4-session─┬─polkit-gnome-au───2*[{polkit-gnome-au}]
     │         │         │                    └─2*[{xfce4-session}]
     │         │         └─2*[{lightdm}]
     │         └─2*[{lightdm}]
     ├─polkitd───2*[{polkitd}]
     ├─rsyslogd───3*[{rsyslogd}]
     ├─udevd
     ├─upowerd───2*[{upowerd}]
     ├─wpa_supplicant
     ├─xfce4-panel─┬─firefox-esr─┬─Web Content───36*[{Web Content}]
     │             │             ├─Web Content───31*[{Web Content}]
     │             │             ├─Web Content───29*[{Web Content}]
     │             │             ├─Web Content───21*[{Web Content}]
     │             │             ├─WebExtensions───28*[{WebExtensions}]
     │             │             └─68*[{firefox-esr}]
     │             ├─panel-2-actions
     │             ├─panel-6-systray
     │             └─{xfce4-panel}
     ├─xfce4-terminal─┬─bash───pstree
     │                └─2*[{xfce4-terminal}]
     ├─xfconfd
     ├─xfdesktop───2*[{xfdesktop}]
     ├─xfsettingsd───2*[{xfsettingsd}]
     └─xfwm4

Last edited by HevyDevy (2020-06-29 13:40:31)

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#2 2020-06-29 13:14:28

larsH
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Re: Solved - xfce4 session issues

Hi

As you probably know the default with xfce is slim and elogin. I think the problem could be with lightdm and xfce. Look here if this is the problem :-))
https://bgstack15.wordpress.com/2019/09 … r-session/

Have a nice day
Lars H

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#3 2020-06-29 13:21:31

HevyDevy
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Posts: 358  

Re: Solved - xfce4 session issues

I dont think so, had the same issue with startxfce4 via startx. Something is not right with elogind and xfce4, i just dont know what it is.

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#4 2020-06-29 13:28:47

fsmithred
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Re: Solved - xfce4 session issues

Maybe...

https://files.devuan.org/devuan_beowulf … _notes.txt

Power buttons are disabled on the lightdm login screen with elogind.
(See Debian bug [#932047](https://bugs.debian.org/932047))

Add the following line to /etc/pam.d/lightdm-greeter

    session   optional pam_elogind.so

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#5 2020-06-29 13:31:05

larsH
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Posts: 184  

Re: Solved - xfce4 session issues

Hi again

I can see that a lot more of your processes are running outside the loginmanager. Is this a problem (I think of xfwm and xfdesktop)

My pstree as user for your reference:
pstree
init─┬─apache2─┬─apache2
     │         └─2*[apache2───26*[{apache2}]]
     ├─at-spi-bus-laun─┬─dbus-daemon
     │                 └─3*[{at-spi-bus-laun}]
     ├─at-spi2-registr───2*[{at-spi2-registr}]
     ├─avahi-daemon───avahi-daemon
     ├─colord───2*[{colord}]
     ├─cron
     ├─cups-browsed───2*[{cups-browsed}]
     ├─cupsd───dbus
     ├─2*[dbus-daemon]
     ├─dbus-launch
     ├─dhclient
     ├─elogind-daemon
     ├─exim4
     ├─6*[getty]
     ├─gpg-agent
     ├─gvfs-udisks2-vo───2*[{gvfs-udisks2-vo}]
     ├─gvfsd─┬─gvfsd-trash───2*[{gvfsd-trash}]
     │       └─2*[{gvfsd}]
     ├─gvfsd-metadata───2*[{gvfsd-metadata}]
     ├─polkitd───2*[{polkitd}]
     ├─rsyslogd───3*[{rsyslogd}]
     ├─saned───saned
     ├─slim─┬─Xorg───2*[{Xorg}]
     │      └─sh─┬─ssh-agent
     │           └─xfce4-session─┬─Thunar───3*[{Thunar}]
     │                           ├─agent───2*[{agent}]
     │                           ├─applet.py
     │                           ├─firefox-esr─┬─2*[Web Content───40*[{Web Cont+
     │                           │             ├─2*[Web Content───34*[{Web Cont+
     │                           │             ├─Web Content───39*[{Web Content+
     │                           │             ├─Web Content───21*[{Web Content+
     │                           │             ├─WebExtensions───29*[{WebExtens+
     │                           │             └─76*[{firefox-esr}]
     │                           ├─polkit-gnome-au───2*[{polkit-gnome-au}]
     │                           ├─volumeicon───2*[{volumeicon}]
     │                           ├─wicd-client───2*[{wicd-client}]
     │                           ├─xfce4-panel
     │                           │             ├─panel-2-actions
     │                           │             ├─panel-6-systray
     │                           │             └─14*[{xfce4-panel}]
     │                           ├─xfdesktop───2*[{xfdesktop}]
     │                           ├─xfwm4
     │                           ├─xscreensaver
     │                           └─2*[{xfce4-session}]
     ├─thunderbird───55*[{thunderbird}]
     ├─udevd
     ├─udisksd───4*[{udisksd}]
     ├─upowerd───2*[{upowerd}]
     ├─wicd───wicd-monitor
     ├─xfce4-notifyd───2*[{xfce4-notifyd}]
     ├─xfce4-power-man───2*[{xfce4-power-man}]
     ├─xfce4-terminal─┬─bash───su───bash───aptitude───4*[{aptitude}]
     │                ├─bash
     │                ├─bash───pstree
     │                └─3*[{xfce4-terminal}]
     ├─xfconfd
     └─xfsettingsd───2*[{xfsettingsd}]

Hope this is to some help
Lars H

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#6 2020-06-29 13:37:38

HevyDevy
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Registered: 2019-09-06
Posts: 358  

Re: Solved - xfce4 session issues

okay i figured it out, in my quest to not have so many useless packages being installed when i installed xfce4 and xorg it left out 'x11-xserver-utils' using apt install --no-install-recommends

After directly installing this logging out and logging back in again the session works as it should.

This old ubuntu bug solved it.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … ug/1660963

Sorry for the noise!

Last edited by HevyDevy (2020-06-29 13:39:03)

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