[arch-general] console-kit session not activates properly

[Myra Nelson]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:25, Leonid Isaev <lisaev at umail.iu.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:16:31 +0000
> Mauro Santos <registo.mailling at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 25-11-2011 15:15, János Illés wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I have a bit of a trouble with proper policy-kit settings. I’m running
> > > a standalone openbox session for desktop usage. For login I have a
> > > simple script in my .zprofile file, which will start the X server if I
> > > log in from the first virtual terminal (which is what I’m doing 99% of
> > > the time).
> > >   if [[ `tty` == "/dev/tty1" ]]; then    startx &!    logout  fi
> > > my xinitrc is the following:
> > >   exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session
> > > The problem is that in the X session the consolekit session’s is-local
> > > and active properties are FALSE hence the removable device automount
> > > breaks (I guess it could affect other things I dont use)
> > > If I start the X server with startx manually from the tty2 after
> > > logging in, both values will be TRUE and device automounting works
> > > fine.
> > > Should I switch to a proper login manager or is there a quick/easy fix
> > > for this?
> >
> > I had problems too and the solution I found was to do it like this:
> >
> > if [[ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ]];
> > then
> >       startx &> /dev/null &
> >       sleep 15
> >       logout
> > fi
> >
> > The sleep seems to be needed in order for *kit to work. I'm using xfce
> > though.
> >
>
> The sleep is needed to avoid a race condition: logout happens before the
> policykit starts. What I don't understand is why ck doesn't complain about
> an
> empty utmp entry? I though you have to keep your user logged in, so that
> "w"
> returns something. I suspect, you won't be able to use Upower to
> shutdown...
>
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> Leonid Isaev
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To all:

Forgive my noise. Similar problem, probably different solution. PBKAC.

Myra
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