Bug 294714

Summary:	KDE doesn't use ConsoleKit (or systemd-loginctl) to shutdown or restart the machine
Product:	[Unmaintained] ksmserver	Reporter:	Tamás Németh <nt1277>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Lubos Lunak <l.lunak>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	adaptee, arthur, cfeck, diego.viola, egorov_egor, filip.brcic, heri+kde, rdieter, scarpino, stupor_scurvy343, suportevg, teg, zerg
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.7.x
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	first attempt at implementing native systemd restart/shutdown support

Description Tamás Németh 2012-02-23 21:07:23 UTC

Version:           4.7 (using KDE 4.7.2) 
OS:                Linux

KDE doesn't use ConsoleKit (or systemd-loginctl) to shutdown or restart the machine (or is it just a SuSE specific setting?), so it's impossible to ask for authentication for such task by copying /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop (or similar) to /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d (or similar) and then editing it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Try to instruct PolicyKit to ask for authentication for ConsoleKit/systemd@DBus based shutdown/restart.

Actual Results:  
Sadly, it won't affect KDE :-(

Expected Results:  
I assume it would be better if PolicyKit were able to control KDE's shutdown/restart behavior.

BTW, how does KDE shutdown/restart the system if not using DBus services?

Comment 1 Andrea Scarpino 2012-03-07 17:42:11 UTC

I guess this is a stopper for BUG#293978

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2012-03-13 20:47:24 UTC

consolekit integration is only restorted to only if one isn't using kdm login manager. Else, kdm uses it's own native methods (generally by calling what's defined in kdmrc
HaltCmd=
RebootCmd=

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2012-03-13 20:49:06 UTC

Followup, in fedora we're working on providing similar native systemd support for shutdown/reboot (and hopefully switchuser) support too.  ReviewBoard patch coming soon I hope.

Comment 4 Rex Dieter 2012-03-14 18:25:33 UTC

Created attachment 69618 [details]
first attempt at implementing native systemd restart/shutdown support

Work in progress patch to support native systemd reboot/shutdown methods.  user switching is still largely untested (so probably still needs work)

Comment 5 stupor_scurvy343 2013-01-29 16:37:22 UTC

Rex, what is the current status of your patch - are you using it in Fedora, and is it ready for ReviewBoard?

Comment 6 Rex Dieter 2013-01-29 17:21:46 UTC

My bad for not following up, someone else picked up the torch, and got it reviewed and integrated into kde-4.10

https://reviewboard.kde.org/r/107611/

Comment 7 stupor_scurvy343 2013-01-29 17:23:01 UTC

(In reply to comment #6)
> My bad for not following up, someone else picked up the torch, and got it
> reviewed and integrated into kde-4.10
> 
> https://reviewboard.kde.org/r/107611/

Thanks a lot for the info!