Oh, sorry for not having spotted this before. In bug 267238 you pasted your ck-list-sessions output:
$ ck-list-sessions Session1: unix-user = '1000' realname = 'jamesc,,,' seat = 'Seat1' session-type = '' active = FALSE x11-display = '' x11-display-device = '' display-device = '/dev/tty1' remote-host-name = '' is-local = TRUE on-since = '2009-07-27T06:15:37.099359Z' login-session-id = '' idle-since-hint = '2009-07-27T06:16:08.001685Z' This means that you were logged in on a text console (VT1), but your X session does not have a consolekit session for some reason. Which login manager are you using? gdm and kdm get this alright, and even xdm should, though /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90consolekit . You said you are using window maker as WM, so I tentatively assign this to wdm. If you use another login manager, we can reassign. The window manager ideally registers a CK session by itself, but if not, it at least needs to run all the /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ scripts. ** Package changed: hal (Ubuntu) => wdm (Ubuntu) -- Camera (USB PTP) not accessible to non-root user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/407529 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs