On Thursday 23 December 2010 10:51:32 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > I guess all of you having this problem use baseayout-2/openrc with > parallel service start. Try if rc_parallel="NO" in /etc/rc.conf fixes > the problem. I had a similar problem with sshd [1] which disappeared > after disabling parallel start.
Curiouser and curiouser. I have rc_parallel="NO" (it's never been anything else) and I am on openrc, but after rc-update del consolekit default and a reboot I can log in again via kdm. As with Helmut, ps shows consolekit running after login; it must have been started by another service, but before /etc/init.d/consolekit would have been run. The original error message was precisely correct - it said the pid file "was not created" (by /etc/init.d/consolekit). It misled me, though, because what it meant is that the file had already been created. The answer is apparently that consolekit should not be added to the default run level. Thanks to those who helped. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
