[SOLVED] Bakewell Startup/Shutdown

[gurtid]

Bakewell. Have a couple of issues.

1. I'd like to autologin. Pidsley has a 'how - to' for Coal but for some reason this doesn't work on Bakewell. A suggestion by mb to wm on the linux-noob forum (a variation on Pidsley's) broke his system (admittedly a different bbq spin).

2. I'd like to be able to shutdown, reboot, logout etc. This doesn't work on Bakewell. The menu commands don't work. Issuing systemctl commands directly don't work. For example

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sudo systemctl poweroff

does not work. That command drops you to a flashing cursor on all screens from where I <alt><prtsrn>r.e.i.s.u.o. to shutdown.

I've read and read and read about these issues but being a knobend am now a little confused.

Influenced in part by the following discussion http://linuxnoob.freeforums.org/quick-i ... -t200.html

. . . I've concluded that the only way to solve these issues is to install a DM.

If this is the case I'm thinking of installing LXDM.

Any suggestions to the contrary appreciated.

[machinebacon]

Do not installa DM just because of this.

Firstly, check the sudoers file.

Very verbose version:

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%sudo   ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/su, /usr/bin/ceni, /usr/bin/xset, /usr/bin/systemctl, /sbin/reboot, /sbin/poweroff, /usr/bin/killall, /usr/bin/pkill
%users  ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/su, /usr/bin/ceni, /usr/bin/xset, /usr/bin/shutdown, /sbin/reboot, /sbin/poweroff, /bin/systemctl

This will shut down: sudo /sbin/poweroff and this reboots: sudo /sbin/reboot
Add these entries to obmenu.

Auto-login: pidsley's guide does work, can you post

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 cat /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]/autologin.conf 

and

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 cat /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/[email protected] 

[gurtid]

Hi mb,

That's great news.

Shutdown etc: Oh it's just a sudoers problem :facepalm:

Autologin: Will try Pidsley's 'how-to' again since you have confirmed it works.

Many thanks. Will either confirm success or ask for further help in a day or two when I can get back to my Bakewell machine. Sorry for delay.

[machinebacon]

No problem. My only guess, if auto-login doesn't work, is that systemd is not active (so better check the /etc/default/grub file for the /bin/systemd entry)

[pidsley]

I installed Bakewell to test autologin, and I was not able to make it work using the method I described for Coal. I believe I have determined the reason -- Bakewell is still using systemd version 44 (from the sid repo) while Coal uses version 204 (from the experimental repo). After enabling the Debian experimental repo and installing systemd v204, the Coal autologin method now works on my Bakewell install.

If you want to stay with v44, you can work around the autologin problem by changing the ExecStart= line in /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/[email protected] to include the autologin information described in the Coal autologin topic, but this enables autologin on all ttys, not just tty1.

BTW, upgrading to systemd v204 also cured some random reboot/shutdown problems I was having with Bakewell and Hubby.

(edit) upgrade not needed. see this post: http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?p=8693#p8693

[gurtid]

Thank you for going to all that trouble Pidsley.

Sounds like I'll be going to experimental for systemd . . .

[pidsley]

^ No trouble really; other people had reported issues with the autologin stuff, and I wanted to track down the problem. But you're welcome :)

Also please follow bacon's advice and make sure systemd is running -- check "pstree" and also make sure "init=/bin/systemd" is in /etc/default/grub and /boot/grub/grub.cfg.

[machinebacon]

^ And if changes are made to /etc/default/grub, remember to *always* sudo update-grub afterwards.

[gurtid]

Ok so . . . as stated by mb the autologin with systemd version 44 works with a tweak here and there. Thank you mb.

As Pidsley stated elsewhere however, this leaves the other ttys logged in, which I guess isn't an issue since you are autologging in anyway :D, but not an ideal situation.

I couldn't get reboot and shutdown to work correctly.

The solution as suggested by Pidsley is to install systemd 204 from experimental.

With systemd version 204 installed:

1. Pidsley's 'Autologin and Startx for Coal' works seamlessly for Bakewell.
2. Changing menu commands for shutdown/reboot to . . .

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sudo systemctl poweroff
sudo systemctl reboot

. . . works as well. I don't think I had to modify sudoers at all.

Thanks for your help guys.

NOTE TO ALL: Bakewell is really really nice . . . 64bit which boots to about 80mb with compositing, tint2, conky, redshift :)