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

[Sam Morris]

> 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)

Ah,  I see, that all makes sense now!

> 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.

Do you know what the harmful side-effects of removing the
XDG_SESSION_COOKIE check in 90consolekit are? I don't really see what
the point of the check is, and it breaks startx & friends.

> Cheers,
> Michael

Thanks for the information! :)

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Sam Morris <sam at robots.org.uk>