On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 21:00:29 -0500, Stephen_Isard <7p03xy...@sneakemail.com> wrote:
>I have upgraded an SL6.7 laptop to SL6.8 - really just kept 6x up to date - >and after a reboot I can't make an internet connection or mount a usb key >from the "Places" menu as an ordinary user. I imagine that the upgrade has >changed the defaults in some authorisation file somewhere. I'd welcome any >advice on where to look. In case someone else hits the same difficulty: The problem appears to be a change in ConsoleKit that the xdm display manager (package xorg-x11-xdm) isn't coping with. When I log in through xdm, ck-list-sessions says that my session is not local, which it needs to be in order to control usb, wireless, ethernet, etc.. Gdm doesn't have the same problem, but I prefer to use as little Gnome as I can manage. The SL6x repositories don't offer a downgrade for ConsoleKit. However, I tested with an older version that I found in a Centos repository and the problem went away. For my own purposes on a laptop that I don't reboot very often - just suspend and resume - I'm more comfortable with the solution of booting into runlevel 3 (edit /etc/sysconfig/inittab) and running startx by hand. The only thing that doesn't work when I do that is suspending by simply shutting the lid. I have to run pm-suspend with sudo. There must be a way of telling ConsoleKit to let a local session run pm-suspend. I note that SL7 has abandoned ConsoleKit for logind, so the issue is not of longterm interest. In fact, xorg-x11-xdm isn't in the SL7 repository either, but the fc19 rpm works for me. Stephen Isard
