Public bug reported: In Raring and earlier, ConsoleKit was used for session management, and /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90consolekit took care of preparing ConsoleKit sessions via `ck-launch-session` when X was started via `startx` instead of a graphical login manager.
In Saucy, ConsoleKit has been replaced with systemd-logind, which has no equivalent for ck-launch-session and requires X to be started on the same terminal as the console used to run `startx`. Could /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc be replaced with the following to accommodate this and ensure that systemd-logind works properly with `startx`? #!/bin/bash TTY="${TTY:-$(tty)}" TTY="${TTY#/dev/}" if [[ $TTY != tty* ]]; then printf '==> ERROR: invalid TTY\n' >&2 exit 1 fi printf -v VT 'vt%02d' "${TTY#tty}" exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -dpi 100 "$VT" "$@" This script comes from http://blog.falconindy.com/articles/back-to-basics-with-x-and-systemd.html Some additional references: http://askubuntu.com/questions/362403/how-to-create-a-new-logind-session-while-running-xinit-from-the-console https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806491 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71171 ** Affects: xinit (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xinit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1247484 Title: systemd-logind sessions are not set up properly if `startx` is used To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xinit/+bug/1247484/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp