Cannot suspend / hibernate within xfce

[mittfh]

Here's an odd one:

From a console (logged in as an ordinary user), I can pm-suspend and pm-hibernate fine.
However, trying to suspend or hibernate from the Xfce panel action buttons informs me:

Shutdown Failed
Failed to suspend session
not authorized

So it appears as though suspending / hibernating via xfce is subject to a different set of authentication policies to doing it via a console... so where are the policies likely to be stored? (I assume as with most bits of Linux configuration it's a text file somewhere with a fairly self-explanatory set of options...)

[djennings]

Hmm It works for me.
Does it happen if you create a new user?

[mittfh]

Created a new user - they still had the problem (which also extends to shut down / restart).

Some forums devoted to other distros suggested changing the login_cmd in slim.conf from:

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exec ck-launch-session /bin/bash -login /etc/X11/Xsession %session

to

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exec startxfce4

But that didn't work either (and yes, I did creat a backup of slim.conf beforehand!)

Unsurprisingly, logging into the desktop as root (something I rarely do for obvious reasons!), all commands were available and worked.

So there's definitely something to do with permissions...

[doktor5000]

All documented in Errata: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_Err ... dm_or_slim