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I am using the kodi-rbp package on Arch ARM. Recently, the shutdown and restart options from the Kodi GUI have disappeared. The only option available is exit. The distro relies on starting kodi-standalone from a systemd service shown below. Can anyone think of a reason why the kodi user would lose access to shutting down the system?

Code:
$ id kodi

uid=997(kodi) gid=997(kodi) groups=997(kodi),6(disk),90(network),91(video),92(audio),93(optical),95(storage),98(power)

Code:
[Unit]

Description = Starts an instance of Kodi

After = remote-fs.target

[Service]

User = kodi

Group = kodi

Type = simple

ExecStart = /usr/bin/kodi-standalone -l /run/lirc/lircd

Restart = on-failure

[Install]

WantedBy = multi-user.target

missing polkit permissions on logind.

see the polkit file in http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=165707

Thank you, I will investigate further. Note that Arch ARM does ship a polkit rule set (linked here).

Yes, you have hit the nail on the head! Arch ARM is not installing polkit nor are they installing the rules to the correct location.

Code:
...

install -Dm0644 $srcdir/kodi.service $pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/kodi.service

  install -Dm0644 $srcdir/polkit.rules $pkgdir/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/10-kodi.rules

  chmod 0700 $pkgdir/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/

I created a PR to fix it based on your observation: https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/pull/1142

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