[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#544483: Please give a way to disable console-kit-daemon startup

[Michael Biebl]

Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> Apparently, this is a feature of console-kit-daemon and will not be
> disabled.  I have found that it's dbus which starts console-kit-daemon,
> but I failed to find where that could be disabled.  Is there one (and
> should thus be documented), or could it be added?

This feature is called dbus system activation [1].

I don't know of a documented way to disable a dbus activated service besides
removing its service file from /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services.

This obviously won't survive a package upgrade.

As dbus follows the xdg spec, you might wanna try to copy the service file to
/usr/local/share/dbus-1/system-services/ and set
Exec=/bin/false

This is an ugly hack though, so beware.

Michael

[1] http://kkaempf.blogspot.com/2009/03/d-bus-service-on-demand.html
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