On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Simon Perry <arch@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all, > > After reading the previous discussion on not needing to be in various > groups like audio, optical etc, I decided to remove myself from a bunch > of groups and "do the right thing" after upgrading to GNOME 3.6 earlier. > > I removed consolekit once pacman told me it was no longer required by > any package, then culled myself from various groups - the important one > being audio. > > When I login via GDM, it seems my "session" isn't active: > > % loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID | grep Active > Active=no > > Therefore, I'm not added to ACLs for my sound devices and Pulseaudio > fires up using a "Dummy" output. > > Not sure what to do here, I've done the following to try and fix it: > > - Disabled / re-enabled certain services, I've had systemd running for a > while and a few things had changed / been updated (e.g. I now have a > default.target and the display-manager.service whose symlink lives in > /etc/systemd/system) > > - Tried messing around with pam (putting pam_systemd.so in a couple of > spots). > > - Tried searching for documentation on what might be wrong, but most of > the things I found relate to not using a display manager like GDM and > just using startx. > > Any tips appreciated. > > Cheers. > > -- > Simon Perry (aka Pezz) > Did you harden your system / add security features?