[kde-freebsd] Inactive ConsoleKit session

[Dima Panov]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:53:02 +0200, David Naylor wrote
> Hi,
> 
> This has been a long standing problem: KDM doesn't login an active 
> session with ConsoleKit.  This can be seen by:
> # ck-list-sessions
> Session1:
>         unix-user = '1001'
>         realname = 'David Naylor'
>         seat = 'Seat2'
>         session-type = ''
>         active = FALSE
>         x11-display = ':0'
>         x11-display-device = ''
>         display-device = '   ?   '
>         remote-host-name = ''
>         is-local = TRUE
>         on-since = '2009-08-11T05:48:46.487916Z'
>         login-session-id = ''
> 
> (Note the "active = FALSE").

Same here. XDM and KDM3 also affected. Under GDM console-kit detect session in
right way, so seems like GDM use additiconal mechanizm to manage CK sessions.

marcus@ told in gnome mailinglists about CK/PolKit/hald problems last day, so
you can find his posts.

> Is this a problem with KDE in general or specific to FreeBSD?
> 
> And, if this were fixed then wouldn't the pesky editing of policykit 
> to get mounting to work be removed?
> 
> Also, if one where to use GDM then would that solve the problem?
> 
> bugs.kde.org doesn't appear to have one about this...
> 
> regards,
> 
> David
> 
> P.S. Nice work, 4.3.0 is looking really polished (and so does Amarok 
> 2.1.1) :->

Thanks :)

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