My original problem has been solved in Karmic, and I've opened a new bug
report (Bug #483130) for the 'startx' problem.
** Changed in: consolekit (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Released
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ConsoleKit sets active=FALSE for non-graphical logins
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363568
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Yes, Paul, you were right: my problem was different; it was a local
configuration issue. It only had similar symptoms.
For your startx problem, I don't see any way other than adding a new part
source script (eg. 99custom) in /etc/X11/Xsession.d, with some custom test to
overload the STARTUP vari
Actually, I think #478274 is a different issue, and it looks like my
issue has been (mostly) fixed in Karmic.
In Jaunty, if I logged in at a text console, 'ck-list-sessions' would
show "active = FALSE" for the session associated with the active text
console. It would only ever show "active = TRUE
I can just confirm this, and add that it seems close to issue #478274.
In Karmic, apparently this active flag is not expected to be set by
pam_ck_connector. I just don't know what is supposed to set it to TRUE,
and I know that something does it (it's working on a fresh karmic
installation, and not
