Solved - xfce4 session issues

HevyDevy · 2020-06-29 12:57:21

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)

larsH · 2020-06-29 13:14:28

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

HevyDevy · 2020-06-29 13:21:31

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.

fsmithred · 2020-06-29 13:28:47

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

larsH · 2020-06-29 13:31:05

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

HevyDevy · 2020-06-29 13:37:38

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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Solved - xfce4 session issues

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