[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#825956: Bug#825956: Bug#825956: policykit-1: greyed out reboot, shutdown, hibernate with 0.105-15~deb8u1, but 0.105-8 is ok

[Jeffrey Sheinberg]

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 09:09:08PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 31.05.2016 um 21:03 schrieb Jeffrey Sheinberg:
> > On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 08:14:47PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >> Am 31.05.2016 um 19:52 schrieb Jeffrey Sheinberg:
> >>> Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> >>> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> >>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> >>> Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
> >>
> >> Please also try to reproduce that issue with the default init system,
> >> i.e. systemd-sysv.
> >>
> > 
> > As far as I understand it, the following configuration is fully
> > supported on Debian-8 (jessie),
> 
> I'm using neither LXDE nor sysvinit. So I rely on others that do to
> provide support for those configurations.
> 
> Me asking to try systemd-sysv was an attempt to try narrow down the problem.

Hi Michael,

I installed systemd-sysv on my jessie testing partition so that I could
gain some familiarity with systemd and init-select.

Somewhere along the way, I accidently upgraded policykit from 0.105-8 to
0.105-15~deb8u1.  As I was switching back and forth between systemd and 
sysvinit, I noticed that when systemd was active, the greyed out menus were
no longer greyed out, and were now working properly - and at the next
reboot using sysvinit - those same menus are still working properly.

Back to my production jessie partition, with policykit 0.105-8
installed, along with sysvinit-core - menus are working properly. I
installed systemd-sysv and init-select, deinstalling sysvinit-core.
Over the next few days, I reboot a few times, alternating between
systemd and sysvinit - then when sysvinit is active, I upgrade policykit
from 0.105-8 to 0.105-15~deb8u1 - the menus are working properly.

Note that I had submitted the original bug report after having upgraded
policykit from 0.105-8 to 0.105-15~deb8u1 with sysvinit-core installed,
and never having had installed systemd-sysv.

Finally, I install sysvinit-core, and deinstall init-select and systemd-sysv,
and then shutdown using the still working lightdm menus.  Next morning,
I reboot and the menus are again working properly.

So it appears that this bug report can be closed, since the original
problem no longer manifests.

Thanks,
-- 
Jeffrey Sheinberg