Ken Moffat wrote:
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.
Yes, it is.
I've also used 'startxfce4 --with-ck-launch' but as far
as I can remember none of them made any difference.
If you follow the source that resolves to
ck-launch-session xfce4-session
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It's really common that as soon as you post a problem that you figure it
out. Examining the startx script, I see that running
$ startx -- vt7
moves the x11-display-device back to tty7 and the session is now active
and all the poweroff, etc buttons are active.
If I change ~/.xinitrc to just have
xfce4-session
it also works. It seems to inherit the session from login.
But a plain 'startxfce4' does not. Another thing that does not work is
not updating shadow or if the pam_ck_connector.so module in
/etc/pam.d/system-session is not used.
The question now is how to address this in the book. We may have to do
it separately for each desktop environment.
-- Bruce
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