[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] use ConsoleKit instead of HAL for shutdown/reboot

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:12:43AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:32 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 07:55:45PM -0400, Chris Ball wrote:

>> Now, if one also stops HAL, the shutdown or restart options don't 
>> work, and shell.log says:
>
>I thought the point of these patches was to move from HAL to
>ConsoleKit so surely it should work whether HAL is there or not
>especially with everyone moving away from HAL to
>ConsoleKit/upower/udisk/udev etc/

I do not know those mechanisms intimately, but can easily imagine that 
on some (versions of some) systems the transition has not completed yet 
so that *other* parts of the chain fail if HAL is unavailable.


Regards,

   - Jonas

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