[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#543324: Secure Attention Key kills console-kit-daemon

[Simon Richter]

Package: consolekit
Version: 0.3.0-3+b1
Severity: normal

Hi,

pressing the Secure Attention Key kills all processes that have a /dev/tty
handle open; console-kit-daemon happens to be one of them (actually, all
threads receive a separate SIGKILL, which is very noisy).

Despite not knowing what I actually need this process for, I think it might
be bad for it to be stopped if some other tool or library expects it to
exist when it doesn't, so I think the daemon should be made to set itself
up in a way that pressing the SAK does not kill it entirely (e.g. perhaps a
separate process for /dev/tty1, and not keeping a /dev/tty handle).

   Simon

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages consolekit depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.2.16-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libc6                  2.9-24            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libck-connector0       0.3.0-3+b1        ConsoleKit libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.16-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.82-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.20.4-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libx11-6               2:1.2.2-1+b1      X11 client-side library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages consolekit recommends:
ii  libpam-ck-connector           0.3.0-3+b1 ConsoleKit PAM module

consolekit suggests no packages.

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