[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#520720: gnome-power-manager: Stopped working after consolekit upgrade)

[Michael Biebl]

Sam Morris wrote:
>> does it help if you logout/login?
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Logging out does not help. It seems that ck-launch session simply does
> not do anything when launched via the Xsession script when run from
> startx.

Yeah, I only noticed that you were using startx after hitting the send button.

> I disagree that this is only of 'normal' severity, since it prevents
> other things on the system from working, like suspend/resume, cpufreq
> adjustment, policykit administration, etc. That is, if we care about
> users who use startx (I am currently forced to use it because of bugs in
> Xorg's Intel driver and/or libdrm).

Hi Sam,

what's happening (afaics) is this.

1.) you have libpam-ck-connector installed, which with version 0.3.0-1 is now
automatically enabled (using pam-auth-update)
2.) When you login on the console, XDG_SESSION_COOKIE will be set by the pam module
3.) you then start your X session via startx, the Xsession script will not run
though, as XDG_SESSION_COOKIE is already set.
4.) Your session on the console (tty1) will then correctly be marked as inactive
(as your active session will now be at tty7)

I downgraded to normal, as this type of setup is rather unusual
Users with gdm/kdm will not experience this problem.

For the time being, you can either uninstall libpam-ck-connector / disable it
(run dpkg-reconfigure libpam-ck-connector) or remove the XDG_SESSION_COOKIE
check in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90consolekit (which shouldn't do any harm for you,
as you don't use gdm/kdm)

I'm not quite sure yet, how to address this issue.


Cheers,
Michael



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