[PROBLEM] No power off options in Kodi Menu

[Gauner]

Since upgrading to Debian 11, the kodi shutdown menu doesn't show any entries except "exit" any more:

No shutdown, no reboot.
I already tried several tips for polkit-1:
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=311630
https://www.reddit.com/r/kodi/comments/3o7cx2/shutdown_button_does_not_shutdown/
...but with no success. Any chance to get help here?

[Gauner]

I also added

Code:

ResultAny=yes

and modified

Code:

ResultInactive=yes

in each /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/allow_all_users_to_restart.pkla and /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/allow_all_users_to_shutdown.pkla

with no success.

[Nachteule]

Very strange.

If you still have elogind installed, it might be an idea to get rid of this package:

Code:

sudo apt-get install systemd  libpam-systemd
sudo apt-get purge elogind                             (ignore the error)
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xbian-update
sudo apt-get purge elogind                             (remove it again due to the previous error)
sudo start logind or reboot

In any case, the policy-kit settings are definitely not the problem

[Gauner]

Thank You very much.
Sadly, no relief, did all this, but still the error remains.
I also tried

Code:

sudo apt install --reinstall xbian-package-xbmc

Reason lies in history:
While upgrading, I had several hickups and had to do

Code:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

Code:

sudo apt --fix-broken install

Code:

sudo apt autoremove

each several times. All of this was mentioned in dialog boxes or output of previous commands.
I finally ended up with xbian booting into command line, instead into kodi, which I could solve with

Code:

sudo apt install xbian-package-xbmc

Since that it started and worked fine and also had no more updates available in xbian setting inside kodi.
Beside the mentioned error, having no power down or reboot options in Kodi menu.

On more thing I checked: It is not disabled in the skin. I looked it up inside ~/.kodi/addons/skin.confluence/720p/DialogButtonMenu.xml and also changed the skin as a double check. All other skins I tried show the same: no power-off options in menu.

Any more ideas?

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Also tried making a new profile inside kodi, with all new settings. No change, also in the brand new profile no power off options.

[Nachteule]

You could have said right away that the upgrade did not work properly.
So, first of all make sure that all packages have been installed

Code:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Maybe not all have been installed

[Gauner]

(12th Sep, 2021 04:30 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  You could have said right away that the upgrade did not work properly.

Sorry, you're right. Since I ended up with a quite working system, and no upgrades left, I thought, finally the update process was successful and didn't think, that the hickups left any traces.

(12th Sep, 2021 04:30 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  

Code:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Also did that already before, forgot to mention. That was one of the things that made me believe, the upgrade finally worked.
Just did it again, it ends with:

Code:

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

So, would You agree, that the upgrade process itself went fine (finally, in the result view)? Or is there anything else that could be checked?

[Nachteule]

Normally xbian-update is installed again at the end of the XBian upgrade, to fix some things if necessary. At upgrade Stretch -> Buster this was necessary anyway. At Buster -> Bullseye I don't know, because it is done as well

Maybe

Code:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall xbian-update

brings something

But I will be honest, I don't have much hope for this. Apart from that I can't think of anything else at the moment

[Gauner]

Ok, thank You very much for the effort anyway.
Maybe, I'll live with it. I can coldly switch off the machine seemingly, no negative side effects until now.

[Nachteule]

I can't say how many changes you have made to your system.
But for most users it makes more sense to back up the home directory, then completely reinstall and get the home back. This is a very simple thing to do and is usually much faster.

[Nachteule]

For the sake of completeness:

I also had this phenomenon today with an installation. After a reinstall of xbian-update didn't help, I then ran

Code:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall systemd libpam-systemd

and after a reboot everything was as it should be.
It seems that some maintenance scripts or whatever were not executed correctly

[Gauner]

(8th Oct, 2021 04:43 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  

Code:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall systemd libpam-systemd

Thank you very much for this update. Tried it, sadly to no avail. The reinstall worked fine, but my error remains.

[Nachteule]

This is desperate. I also updated Kodi (xbian-package-xbmc) at the same time, but that won't have fixed the bug i think.

[Gauner]

(8th Oct, 2021 08:20 PM)Nachteule Wrote:  I also updated Kodi (xbian-package-xbmc) at the same time, but that won't have fixed the bug i think.

No, at least not on my installation, tried that before, see above.

[Nachteule]

Then unfortunately I can't think of anything else to say

[smirko]

It's been some time, but I actually managed to overcome the issue by combining some of the steps mentioned in this and some other threads regarding shutdown options being unavailable.


I tried:

Code:

apt-get install systemd libpam-systemd

Apparently, those packages were missing, as regular installation (without the --reinstall flag), worked.
This resulted in some packages being removed, elogind and libpam-elogind among others.
However, the issue persisted.

Then I thought about going back in the /var/log/dpkg.log* files, to investigate which packages might have been removed recently.
And apparently, a couple of weeks ago, I removed (unconsciously) a few important packages like policykit-1, libsystemd0, systemd and libpam-systemd

So, the solution for me was:
first:

Code:

apt-get install systemd libpam-systemd

then

Code:

apt-get install policykit-1

I'm not sure, but I think I did a reboot and the shutdown menu was working again.