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has caused the Debian Bug report #526006,
regarding please add a warning to the libpam-ck-connector description for users
of startx
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Package: libpam-ck-connector
Severity: wishlist
Users who start their X session using startx from a text terminal will have
a lengthy debugging session facing them after their next full logout/logon
if they install libpam-ck-connector. All sorts of things will not work
correctly, including suspend/hibernate, mounting of removable media, access
to pulse-audio, etc. This is due to the new consolekit/policykit method of
doing things, and the fact that libpam-ck-connector sets XDG_SESSION_COOKIE
in the text logon, preventing the Xsession scripts from correctly adding
ck-launch-session in the $STARTUP command (see bug # 520720 at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520720 for an as-yet
inconclusive discussion on this matter)
There are various "fixes" available for this, but they are either
non-obvious, introduce security holes, or involve customizations that will
prevent the end user from benefitting from future improvements to the debian
X startup procedure (due to having xinitrc, xsessionrc and/or xsession files
in the home directory).
The simplest solution to this problem is to purge libpam-ck-connector. After
doing so, I have had no more issues related to consolekit/policykit.
I would like to suggest that a warning be added to the description for
libpam-ck-connector, for example:
If you use startx from a text terminal to start your X session, you
probably should not install this package, as it is likely to prevent you
from accessing most dbus and hal related functionality in your X session,
such as suspend/hibernate, mounting of removable media, access to
pulseaudio devices, etc.
In addition, please change the control file for the consolekit package to
only Suggest libpam-ck-connector, instead of Recommending it, so that it is
not installed by default.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.iso8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages libpam-ck-connector depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libck-connector0 0.3.0-2 ConsoleKit libraries
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libpam-runtime 1.0.1-9 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 1.0.1-9 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
libpam-ck-connector recommends no packages.
libpam-ck-connector suggests no packages.
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Version: 0.3.0-3
Forgot to close this bug:
consolekit (0.3.0-3) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/control
- Update Vcs-* fields. Package is now managed with Git on git.debian.org.
- Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.2. No further changes.
* debian/copyright
- Misc whitespace cleanups.
- Refer to versioned GPL-2 file.
* debian/consolekit.preinst
- Use "set -e" instead of "#!/bin/sh -e".
* debian/90consolekit
- If an X session is started from the console using startx, make sure to
register a CK session, even if XDG_SESSION_COOKIE is already set.
(Closes: #520720)
-- Michael Biebl <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:09:54 +0200
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