[Mageia-dev] /sbin/poweroff & kdm

Fri Sep 14 11:06:05 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Nicolas Lécureuil at 13/09/12 12:39 did gyre and gimble:
+> Le jeudi 13 septembre 2012 13:32:54 EatDirt a écrit :
+>> seems to have been replaced by /bin/poweroff making kdm failing to
+>> poweroff. I can open a bug report if needed.
+>>
+>> cheers,
+>> Chris.
+> 
+> thanks for the notice, i just fixed on the svn. Will be part of the next 
+> mageia-kde4-config package update.
+
+Sweet. I had swithered (Scottish word, if you don't know it:
+http://caledonianmercury.com/2010/03/14/useful-scots-word-swither/003379)
+about whether or not to add compat symlinks in sbin, but if there are
+only a few things affected, it's better to fix them at source.
+
+Two points however:
+
+1. As we are post-usrmove, /usr/bin/poweroff should be preferred to
+/bin/poweroff
+
+2. We should really attempt to port kdm to logind. This will give true
+automatic multi-seat support and will allow proper management of
+shutdown and such like procedures without relying on legacy/compat binaries.
+
+If anyone is willing to help on this porting effort, I probably arrange
+some multi-seat h/w through upstream contact (e.g. little USB devices
+you plugin that gives you an extra keyboard+mouse+screen). I'll try and
+speak with upstream about it too, but if someone wants to do some kdm
+hacking from this end, that would be nice!
+
+Cheers
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
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