[blfs-dev] ConsoleKit problems

[Ken Moffat]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 07:58:39PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I'm trying to get the permissions right in an xfce session and I've narrowed
> down the problem to ConsoleKit.  The symptom is that when trying to log out,
> the poweroff, reboot, etc icons are greyed out and do not work.
> 
> I'm trying to get this to work at runlevel 3 and starting Xorg via the
> command line.
> 

Ah yes, this old problem.

> When I log in, the session looks fine:
> 
> $ ck-list-sessions
> Session1:
>         unix-user = '1000'
>         realname = 'Bruce Dubbs'
>         seat = 'Seat1'
>         session-type = ''
>         active = TRUE
>         x11-display = ''
>         x11-display-device = ''
>         display-device = '/dev/tty1'
>         remote-host-name = ''
>         is-local = TRUE
>         on-since = '2015-09-15T00:35:23.549063Z'
>         login-session-id = '1'
> 
> 
> But after I startx, it looks like:
> 
> Session3:
>         unix-user = '1000'
>         realname = 'Bruce Dubbs'
>         seat = 'Seat1'
>         session-type = ''
>         active = FALSE
>         x11-display = ':0'
>         x11-display-device = '/dev/tty1'
>         display-device = '/dev/tty1'
>         remote-host-name = ''
>         is-local = TRUE
>         on-since = '2015-09-15T00:38:01.457963Z'
>         login-session-id = '1'
> Session1:
>         unix-user = '1000'
>         realname = 'Bruce Dubbs'
>         seat = 'Seat1'
>         session-type = ''
>         active = TRUE
>         x11-display = ''
>         x11-display-device = ''
>         display-device = '/dev/tty1'
>         remote-host-name = ''
>         is-local = TRUE
>         on-since = '2015-09-15T00:35:23.549063Z'
>         login-session-id = '1'
>         idle-since-hint = '2015-09-15T00:38:30.830416Z'
> 
> Notice that the Session 3 with x11-display = ':0' has active = FALSE.
> 
> My .xinitrc right now has
>   ck-launch-session xfce4-session
> 
One suggestion was:

 exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startxfce4

because the user part of dbus (as well as the system part) is
needed.  But somebody else claims that dbus-session is spawned by
startxfce4.  I've also used 'startxfce4 --with-ck-launch' but as far
as I can remember none of them made any difference.

> but I've tried several alternatives.  Does anyone know how to get the Xorg
> session to become active when it is started?
> 
> One thing I've noticed is that the display-device is the same for both
> sessions.  Perhaps getting it back to tty7 would help and I'm going to
> investigate that next.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
>   -- Bruce

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