On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:16:31 +0000 Mauro Santos <registo.mailling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 25-11-2011 15:15, János Illés wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a bit of a trouble with proper policy-kit settings. I’m running > > a standalone openbox session for desktop usage. For login I have a > > simple script in my .zprofile file, which will start the X server if I > > log in from the first virtual terminal (which is what I’m doing 99% of > > the time). > > if [[ `tty` == "/dev/tty1" ]]; then startx &! logout fi > > my xinitrc is the following: > > exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session > > The problem is that in the X session the consolekit session’s is-local > > and active properties are FALSE hence the removable device automount > > breaks (I guess it could affect other things I dont use) > > If I start the X server with startx manually from the tty2 after > > logging in, both values will be TRUE and device automounting works > > fine. > > Should I switch to a proper login manager or is there a quick/easy fix > > for this? > > I had problems too and the solution I found was to do it like this: > > if [[ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ]]; > then > startx &> /dev/null & > sleep 15 > logout > fi > > The sleep seems to be needed in order for *kit to work. I'm using xfce > though. > The sleep is needed to avoid a race condition: logout happens before the policykit starts. What I don't understand is why ck doesn't complain about an empty utmp entry? I though you have to keep your user logged in, so that "w" returns something. I suspect, you won't be able to use Upower to shutdown... -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key ID: 164B5A6D Key fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
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