On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 19:19 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > 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.
Ugh, I see. :( Is there any advantage in having display managers talk to consolekit directly? It seems like duplication of effort given that libpam-ck-connector exists. Alternatively, what do you think about having 90consolekit test for well-known environment variables rather than XDG_SESSION_COOKIE? I see that GDM sets GDMSESSION... if the other consolekit-using display managers set other variables, the script could test for the existence of any of them. I guess it would be better for all the ConsoleKit-using display managers to, if they insist on not relying on libpam-ck-connector, to set a common environment variable that the script can test for. > Cheers, > Michael -- Sam Morris https://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078
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