"Restart" "Shut Down" "Suspend" "Hibernate" grayed out

[revoke]

Hello.

I have a strange problem after upgrading from 13.0.2 to 13.1 (as outlined in the wiki).

4 of the 5 options in the "Log out [username]" dialog box (the one that appears after hitting the Quit button) are now disabled/grayed out. Before the upgrade to 13.1, they were all enabled in 13.0.2. The disabled options are "Restart", "Shutdown", "Suspend", and "Hibernate". Only "Log Out" appears active.



I can still restart or shut down from the Log In screen, but it would more convenient to shut down from the Log Out dialog.

I've searched the Salix and Xfce forums and Googled a bit, but I'm not having much luck tracking down solutions. Of course, this could be because I am not searching with the correct terms to describe the dialog box in question.

Any help to point me in the right direction would be much appreciated.

Thanks
-revoke

P.S. Excellent job on 13.1. It seems more responsive than 13.0.2 (not that 13.0.2 was in any way slow). I'm liking 13.1 quite a bit. The upgrade in the wiki was straightforward and well written, even for a Linux novice like myself. Kudos to the Salix team!

[jbs1136]

Have you checked your user settings to see if you have permission for power. Open the menu, System, Users and groups, highlight your user name and click on properties. It will show what groups you have permission to use. Power is number 84. Users and Groups requires root password.

HTH's,

john

[gapan]

You probably replaced your original /etc/group file when you ran dotnew. So, you're not a member of any groups now. The original file should be now /etc/group.orig, so you could try restoring that.

[revoke]

Mark this one [SOLVED]... I figured it was something easy.

You were both correct.

My user account did not have rights to "power", so a quick

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usermod -G power {username}

did the trick.

I did, in fact, replace all my settings files when using dotnew during the upgrade process. I was lazy and tired when I did the upgrade to 13.1. Not a good way to do an upgrade. One must pay attention.

Looking over a few more things, I also needed to give myself rights back to things like "audio" and "cd-rom" to have more functionality restored.

Thanks for the quick reply. You guys are awesome.

[jbs1136]

Me, I just happened to have had permission problems before caused by the .dot new and not paying attention.


john

[gapan]

Mark this one [SOLVED]... I figured it was something easy.

You can do this yourself by editing your first post in this thread and changing the title.