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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] /sbin/poweroff &amp; kdm</H1>
    <B>Colin Guthrie</B> 
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Nicolas L&#233;cureuil at 13/09/12 12:39 did gyre and gimble:
&gt;<i> Le jeudi 13 septembre 2012 13:32:54 EatDirt a &#233;crit :
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> seems to have been replaced by /bin/poweroff making kdm failing to
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> poweroff. I can open a bug report if needed.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> cheers,
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Chris.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> thanks for the notice, i just fixed on the svn. Will be part of the next 
</I>&gt;<i> mageia-kde4-config package update.
</I>
Sweet. I had swithered (Scottish word, if you don't know it:
<A HREF="http://caledonianmercury.com/2010/03/14/useful-scots-word-swither/003379">http://caledonianmercury.com/2010/03/14/useful-scots-word-swither/003379</A>)
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


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