[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#741698: lightdm: shutdown/restart options in XFCE are no longer available

[Thomas Bartscher]

Package: lightdm
Version: 1.10.1-2
Followup-For: Bug #741698

On my Laptop I usually start lightdm only when needed and not when
booting. I am using sysvinit and used the following two methods at
different times to disable autostarting of lightdm:

1.
$ sudo update-rc.d lightdm remove

2.
via rcconf

In both cases I wasn't able to do anything in XFCE which requires
admin rights (shutting down the computer and configuring the network
manager was what I tried). Also when starting up lightdm via
$ sudo service lightdm start
I am shortly shown the X terminal, then my computer switches back to
the terminal where I executed the command. My computer also switches
back to said terminal after logging in via lightdm.

None of these problems appear when lightdm is started automatically at
boot time.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lightdm depends on:
ii  adduser                                3.113+nmu3
ii  consolekit                             0.4.6-4
ii  dbus                                   1.8.2-1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                  1.5.53
ii  libc6                                  2.18-7
ii  libgcrypt11                            1.5.3-4
ii  libglib2.0-0                           2.40.0-3
ii  libpam-systemd                         204-8
ii  libpam0g                               1.1.8-3
ii  libxcb1                                1.10-2
ii  libxdmcp6                              1:1.1.1-1
ii  lightdm-gtk-greeter [lightdm-greeter]  1.8.5-1

Versions of packages lightdm recommends:
ii  xserver-xorg  1:7.7+7

Versions of packages lightdm suggests:
ii  accountsservice  0.6.37-1
ii  upower           0.9.23-2+b2

-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: lightdm
  lightdm/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/lightdm