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

[Michael Biebl]

Sam Morris wrote:
>> 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.

gdm/kdm talk to consolekit directly.
So if you login via a login manager (which also launches the xsession scripts),
you would get two consolekit session cookies.

Cheers,
Michael

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