[arch-general] GNOME 3.6 upgrade / GDM / Removed consolekit

[Jan Steffens]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Simon Perry <arch at sanxion.net> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> After reading the previous discussion on not needing to be in various
> groups like audio, optical etc, I decided to remove myself from a bunch
> of groups and "do the right thing" after upgrading to GNOME 3.6 earlier.
>
> I removed consolekit once pacman told me it was no longer required by
> any package, then culled myself from various groups - the important one
> being audio.
>
> When I login via GDM, it seems my "session" isn't active:
>
> % loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID | grep Active
> Active=no
>
> Therefore, I'm not added to ACLs for my sound devices and Pulseaudio
> fires up using a "Dummy" output.
>
> Not sure what to do here, I've done the following to try and fix it:
>
> - Disabled / re-enabled certain services, I've had systemd running for a
>   while and a few things had changed / been updated (e.g. I now have a
>   default.target and the display-manager.service whose symlink lives in
>   /etc/systemd/system)
>
> - Tried messing around with pam (putting pam_systemd.so in a couple of
>   spots).
>
> - Tried searching for documentation on what might be wrong, but most of
>   the things I found relate to not using a display manager like GDM and
>   just using startx.
>
> Any tips appreciated.
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Simon Perry (aka Pezz)
>

Did you harden your system / add security features?