Shut down issue in 6.5

[hitest]

Installed 6.5 yesterday, everything mostly behaves as expected. I am having one issue with shutting down my PC when running XFCE.
When I click on my name and then click on shut down the PC starts counting down for a shut down. When it reaches the 30 second mark the PC reverts back to the xenodm log-in screen. On OpenBSD 6.4 this previously worked. I'm assuming that something may have changed moving from 6.4---> 6.5?

Here is my /etc/rc.conf.local file:

xenodm_flags=""
pkg_scripts="messagebus"
ntpd_flags="-s"

Here is my .xsession file which is in my home directory:

exec ck-launch-session startxfce4

Thanks for any and all replies. This isn't emergent. I can shut down the PC using the XFCE terminal.

[jggimi]

I don't use XFCE, but I noticed that the pkg-readme for the XFCE meta package says:

If you run a systemwide D-BUS service, have consolekit2/polkit installed and don't use --with-ck-launch you will not be able to shutdown/reboot.

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cv...ype=text/plain

[hitest]

Thanks for the reply. I read the link you provided. I tried adding --with to my .xsession file and locked myself out of my system until I logged in as root and reverted back to the previous state.

Tried this and locked myself out.

exec --with-ck-launch-session startxfce4

This is what I'm using now.

exec ck-launch-session startxfce4

I do have consolekit2 and polkit installed. I suspect I don't understand the XFCE link you provided.

[jggimi]

An XFCE user may jump in with specific answers. Meanwhile, you'll find a more readable version of that link as a file on your system in /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/

[hitest]

Originally Posted by jggimi

An XFCE user may jump in with specific answers. Meanwhile, you'll find a more readable version of that link as a file on your system in /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/

Thanks, mate. I will go check that out.

[hitest]

Read the text you suggested. I do have messagebus running. However, the suggested edits for .xsession and or /etc/rc.conf.local are very vague. I don't understand what they're talking about. Heh.
If you're an XFCE user please clarify this. Thank you kindly.

[shep]

Halting and rebooting require consolekit2 and polkit: you'll need to run
a systemwide D-BUS service (add messagebus to pkg_scripts in
rc.conf.local) and pass --with-ck-launch argument to startxfce4. If you
run a systemwide D-BUS service, have consolekit2/polkit installed and
don't use --with-ck-launch you will not be able to shutdown/reboot.

If I read this strictly the .xsession syntax should be:

/usr/local/bin/startxfce4 --with-ck-launch

polkit(8) sets rules in /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/50-default.rules.

My /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/50-default.rules

/* -*- mode: js; js-indent-level: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*- */

// DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, it will be overwritten on update
//
// Default rules for polkit
//
// See the polkit(8) man page for more information
// about configuring polkit.

polkit.addAdminRule(function(action, subject) {
    return ["unix-group:wheel"];
});

Suggests you need to be a member of the wheel group.

There is also a /usr/local/share/polkit-1/rules.d/10-openbsd-consolekit.rules.

The 10-openbsd-consolekit.rules specifically address user shutdown, reboot, hibernation for users in the wheel group I'm not sure they are active - have not seen any code that references them. Classically, 10-openbsd-consolekit.rules would need to be in /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/.

[hitest]

shep,

Thanks man. Will give that a try tomorrow. I appreciate your help!

[hitest]

Okay made the suggested edits to .xsession and XFCE starts up normally. Checked my /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/50-default.rules and they are the same as yours.
I am still unable to shutdown from the upper right XFCE menu.

[jggimi]

You might reach out to Landry, he's the port maintainer. You'll find his Email address with $ pkg_info xfce.

[hitest]

Originally Posted by jggimi

You might reach out to Landry, he's the port maintainer. You'll find his Email address with $ pkg_info xfce.

Thanks jggimi! I will do that in the next little while.

[albator]

I used to use XFCE (it was with OpenBSD 5.4).
By the time, to shutdown the computer from XFCE I added one of these two lines to /etc/sudoers:

username ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/local/lib/xfce4/session/xfsm-shutdown-helper

or

%users ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/local/lib/xfce4/session/xfsm-shutdown-helper

On the 1st line, username is to be replaced by your user name.
For the 2nd one, you need to belong to the user group.

If xfsm-shutdown-helper still exists, maybe the same thing can be achieved with doas.

[hitest]

Originally Posted by albator

I used to use XFCE (it was with OpenBSD 5.4).
By the time, to shutdown the computer from XFCE I added one of these two lines to /etc/sudoers:

username ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/local/lib/xfce4/session/xfsm-shutdown-helper

I do like to use sudo. Tried adding this line of code to the end of /etc/sudoers. Didn't work. Thank you for the suggestion.

[hitest]

I'm pleased to report a solution to my problem. Landry said that something changed in the consolekit/policykit rules a bit before 6.5, and that might be related.
He suggested that I put myself in the operator group. That worked. I can now shut down my box using the XFCE shut down menu. Here's a snippet of my /etc/group.

bsd$ cat /etc/group
wheel:*:0:root,hitest
daemon:*:1:daemon
kmem:*:2:root
sys:*:3:root
tty:*:4:root
operator:*:5:root,hitest

Many thanks to Landry and to all of you for your kind help. It is appreciated!

[TheTKS]

As wheel user, I'm unable to shutdown from Xfce. When clicking on my name, Shutdown and Restart are greyed out.

I can logout from xfce to the xenodm login screen, but I can only shutdown or reboot from a console as root.

I was able to shutdown from xfce in 6.4.

Here's how I took my machine from 6.4 to 6.5:

- Wiped drive dedicated to OpenBSD
- Did a clean install, from install65.fs (6.4 was installed from install64.iso)
- Did full drive encryption as https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraid (did not encrypt in 6.4)
- After installation:
- As root

# pkg_add xfce xfce-extras consolekit2 polkit nano

- Originally I generated the wheel user’s .xsession as root and copied it to wheel user’s home directory. After I saw that I couldn’t shutdown from xfce as wheel user, I deleted that .xsession and, signed out of root, signed in as wheel user and generated, as user, a new .xsession

$ nano .xsession
exec startxfce4 --with-ck-launch

- Added wheel user to operator group

This is my /etc/rc.conf.local

sshd_flags=NO
xenodm_flags=
pkg_scripts="messagebus"

Any suggestions on what I could look at next?

- I think polkit is included in an OpenBSD installation. Could having run pkg_add polkit have broken something?
- Could full disk encryption affect this?

Thanks,

TKS

[victorvas]

I use terminal commands for shutdown and reboot
Shutdown:
doas -u root shutdown -p now
Reboot:
doas -u root shutdown -r now

of course /etc/doas.conf must contain this line following by an empty line at the end of file:
permit setenv { -ENV PS1=$DOAS_PS1 SSH_AUTH_SOCK } :wheel

Don't forget the empty line at the end of file or doas will be returning syntax error.
Also your user should be a member of a wheel group.
To watch current groups of a user:
groups your_user_name
to add user to a wheel group:
usermod -G wheel your_user_name

Originally Posted by TheTKS

As wheel user, I'm unable to shutdown from Xfce. When clicking on my name, Shutdown and Restart are greyed out.

Edit or create /etc/rc.conf.local
Put these lines inside it:

pkg_scripts="dbus_daemon avahi_daemon messagebus"
dbus_enable

you can also enable avahi if you want
Then open your ~/.xinitrc

exec startxfce4 --with-ck-launch

that's should do it.

[jggimi]

Users who wish to shutdown with consolekit / polkit now need to be in the operator group.

https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/com...ut_openbsd_65/

[TheTKS]

I am finally able to shutdown and reboot from Xfce as wheel and non-wheel users. I left root with the default fvwm.

After reading earlier posts and doing what I wrote in my note above, then spending way more time on this than I should have, and then not getting shutdown and reboot to work, and then reading /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/xfce, I decided that I should also read through avahi, dbus and consolekit2 in the same directory.

After reading /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/avahi and seeing these notes there...

For proper functionality, multicast(4) needs to be enabled

Note that you MUST have a system-wide D-BUS daemon running BEFORE starting avahi

... I did this:
Ran

# rcctl enable avahi_daemon

Changed wheel and non-wheel user .xsessions to

/usr/local/bin/startxfce4 --with-ck-launch

Changed my /etc/rc.conf.local to

multicast=YES
pkg_scripts=messagebus avahi_daemon
sshd_flags=NO
xenodm_flags=

I'm not convinced my set up is both right and as compact as it could be (for instance, I thought in 6.4 I didn't have "avahi_daemon" in pkg_scripts, and definitely not "multicast=YES"), but it's working.

After getting this working, I played with .xsession and with /etc/rc.conf.local, broke things and learned a few things, and came back to this .xsession and rc.conf.local, so I'm sticking with these for now.

If I stick with Xfce, I think learning more about messagebus, dbus, avahi, consolekit2 and polkit might be helpful.

Thanks hitest, shep and jggimi

Edit:
After reading more about avahi, I didn't see a need for it for what I do, and couldn't understand how it could affect this, so I removed two terms and am able to shutdown and restart from Xfce with just this in /etc/rc.conf.local:

pkg_scripts=messagebus
sshd_flags=NO
xenodm_flags=

TKS

[blackhole]

Yes avahi is unrelated. If you had functioning shutdown/reboot, etc before upgrading, you should only need to add your user to the operator group.

~/.xsession

exec ck-launch-session startxfce4

or

exec startxfce4 --with-ck-launch

And

pkg_scripts=messagebus

added to /etc/rc.conf.local

Refer to: /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/xfce

[TheTKS]

Originally Posted by cynwulf

Yes avahi is unrelated. If you had functioning shutdown/reboot, etc before upgrading, you should only need to add your user to the operator group.

...

Refer to: /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/xfce

Thanks for the confirmation on avahi.

I was able to shutdown & restart from Xfce in 6.4 with the same terms in rc.conf.local as I have ended up with in 6.5 (possibly in a different order, though - I kept a copy, but I'm not posting from that machine.)

I didn't upgrade, though, I wiped and did a clean installation. Which is why I was puzzled why, with those same terms at one point in my 6.5 rc.conf.local (again, possibly in a different order), but with updated .xsession and user added to the operator group, I wasn't able to shutdown & restart from Xfce.

In the end, after...
- reading the posts here and on other forums and websites, and
- reading /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/xfce (and a few other pkg readmes)
- all more than once...
I tried a bunch of things and eventually got it to work.

Not a pretty process, but I think I got the setup correct and as compact as it should be, and I learned a couple of things along the way.

I'm declaring victory, with help from forum friendlies here and elsewhere, and from Landry Breuil via hitest.

TKS