#911 failure to shutdown/reboot

[ybsar]

Description: Shutdown/Reboot IceWM menu entries are unresponsive.

Config file ~/.icewm/preferences:
ShutdownCommand="systemctl poweroff"
RebootCommand="systemctl reboot"

Additional notes:
- The above commands work fine when typed in an xterm.
- Using absolute path /usr/bin/systemctl does not help.
- Tested with both display managers lightdm and xdm.

Steps to reproduce: click it

Package version: icewm-1.3.8-1 (on Arch Linux)
Temporary work-around: downgrade to icewm-1.3.7-3

Arch Linux bug report: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/37884
Related bug report: https://sourceforge.net/p/icewm/bugs/907/

[janciorules]

I can confirm this BUG. I have the same problem
OS: Slackware 64bit 14.1
IceWM ver. 1.3.8 - built using slackbuilds.org

Clicking shutdown or reboot, nothing happens, no confirmation windows showed.
Using sudo /sbin/reboot and sudo /sbin/halt . They work using xterm just fine.
I also had to downgrade to 1.3.7 (slackbuilds.org too)

[victor yang]

We have the same problem on suse linux...After checked the code,I found something wrong in code which directly resulted this bug...I will upload my patch,and please check this out that why would this happen...thanks

[ybsar]

Thanks, this patch works for me and archers.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/37884

[Ronald Klop]

The FreeBSD ports also applied this patch.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196034