Hi Walter,

you have selected a very complex and granular setup. Is that really required? I have setup ASCII encrypted on a SSD (what is the difference to a hard disk?) with:
- efi as vfat
- boot 2048 Mbyte ext4
- system partition 64 GByte luks encrypted, LVM contained with two logical volumes for swap and /
- home on separate drive, luks encrypted

Is simple, no problems to be expected with one of the granular partitions to run full. Requires one password for the system and one for home. home on the separate drive was mounted past the installation.

You can naturally setup a LVM with 9 logical volumes and separately encrypt tmp, swap and home. 

BTW: if you mount your hard disk containing your old home to /home on the SSD, the data on the mount point are no more accessible. You only will see the hard disk data there.

Regards, rolfie

I have done a fast install in VBox with slim. Now I remember why I kept lightdm. I do not like slim. I need to enter two topics manually, I miss options lightdm shows.

I will stick to lightdm.

Thanks, rolfie

An addition to this thread: on a fresh install an a different PC based on the ASCII RC CD, the systemd-backend was not installed, but the consolekit option did not work. I had to switch to the elogind option. Refer to: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2023

All with cli installed from CD, then installed xorg, lightdm and Mate desktop with apt.

Regards, rolfie

Well, the one reason for me to switch to Devuan is that I can use the same setup for decrypting luks devices as it was possible until Wheezy. I understand it, I can setup a script for each device individually, no issues. In terms of speed I do not see any advantage in systemd.

Regards, rolfie

I have loaded the Stretch package directly from Oracle and installed it on ASCII. Works fine.

Regards, Rolf

For the time being I can live with what I have currently. Nevertheless I will try to find out what screws the consolekit settings.

rolfie

Sorry, guess I confused two settings: the pkla I used was for the lightdm panel, not for the entry in the system menu. It has no influence on the system menu. I got a specific problem with ASCII and the lighdm panel solved this way. Thanks for the hint to the wrong directory spec.

Nevertherless, a specific pkla file in the /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/ is most likely the right choice for attacking your problem. What I have learned from posts at askUbuntu.com, using this makes the configuration safe against updates of the general policies.

I would recommend to do a search in askUbuntu.com and maybe uniix.stackexchange.com, there are lots of threads about various ways how to modify settings for shutdown, reboot, hibernate and suspend.

Rolfie

Hi Ron,

have a look at: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2023, I think it will give you some interesting insight.

Rolfie

Also found a fix for the LightDM issue. I knew that I had created a special settings file when troubleshooting the same issue two months ago on my wife's PC. Just couldn't find neither the description nor the file I created.

A thorough search today revealed where I did hide a backup copy and a hint from where I got the tip: I found somebody using LightDM/Mate on askubuntu.com who wanted to disable these functions for all users. That article gave me the handle to do the opposite.

You add this file to /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/enable-shutdown-reboot.pkla

[Enable lightdm shutdown/reboot]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.login1.reboot;org.freedesktop.login1.reboot-multiple-sessions;org.freedesktop.login1.power-off;org.freedesktop.login1.power-off-multiple-sessions;
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=yes
ResultActive=yes

I deliberately did not enable Hibernate and Standby, I never use this.

Hope this helps also other readers.

Thanks, Rolfie

@catprints: thanks for the copy of the link. Helps me to recall the details.

Still I am stuck, though I learned something.

• Did a fresh install of ASCII, just base system, no desktop, from DVD, root and home on separate devices and both encrypted.

• Edited the sources.list to work from the internet. Update/upgrade.

• Made the auto-decrypt work.

• Installed xorg, lightdm and mate-extra. Added synaptic.

• Reboot: all works as expected, got consolekit installed.

• Started to add packages with apt install in blocks to build my usual working enviroment. After each block checked the installed policykit-files with dpkg -l, only got consoleklit stuff back.

• When finished, rebooted => issues back again. No change in the policykit-files installed, still on consolekit.

In the moment I am stuck. No idea what may cause the issues. Suspect tools like gnome-system-tools.

Probably need more time to figure out what causes the problems.

Hints are welcome.

Thanks, rolfie