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Bug 525696 - xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager should depend on app-admin/sudo
Summary: xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager should depend on app-admin/sudo
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: XFCE Team
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Reported: 2014-10-17 21:48 UTC by Oleksiy
Modified: 2015-07-04 13:23 UTC (History)
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2014-10-17 21:48 UTC, Oleksiy 		Details
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Description Oleksiy 2014-10-17 21:48:57 UTC 
Created attachment 386836 [details]
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Hi

I installed xfce-base/xfce4-meta ok. It starts and works Ok. Then installed xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager. Then started XFCE using startxfce4. It starts OK. 

PROBLEM:
I tried to run XFCE power manager from XFCE Settings. It complained that "XFCE power manager deaemon is not running. Do You want to start it?" Click Yes. Mouse cursor indicates infinite busy state and that's all.

Open terminal. Started 'xfce4-power-manager --no-diamon'. Gives some DBus errors about something with sudo. Figured out that 'sude' is not installed. Installed app-admin/sudo. Started 'xfce4-power-manager --no-diamon'. Got different DBus error about unable to connect to xfce_pm_helper. Restarted XFCE. Started XFCE Settings -> Power manager. WORKS :)!

Problem sourse: At startup XFCE starts xfce4-pm-helper daemon. This daemon can work only if 'sudo' is installed.

Please add app-admin/sudo as a dependence for the xfce4-meta. I think there may be other XFCE4 daemons that require 'sudo'.

Regards.
Comment 1 Jason Zaman gentoo-dev 2015-07-04 13:23:35 UTC 
>=xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager-1.5.0 uses pkexec now not sudo anymore, so this is obsolete now.