On 1/4/10, José Romildo Malaquias <j.romi...@gmail.com> wrote: > When shutting down my ~amd64 gentoo system running XFCE, the system > does not shut down and I receive the following error message, and then > the XFCE session is closed. > > Unable to perform shutdown > error: org.freedesktop.Hal.Error: Could not determine whether caller > is privileged > org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Error > > Any clues? > Yes. Something similar is happening on amd64 Debian systems (see [1][2]). The only workaround that I'm aware of sofar is to make sure no root programs are running when hitting the shutdown/restart button. Liviu
[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-xfce-devel/2009-April/008492.html [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-u...@lists.debian.org/msg553778.html
