On Tue, 05.01.10 10:12, Bill Cox (waywardgeek at gmail.com) wrote: > > The whole point of ConsoleKit is to follow who's logged in. Are you > > suggesting that if you login on the console ck-list-sessions does not > > list that session? If that's the case your really should have a word > > with the Ubuntu developers... > > I was wrong. What's going on is that PA does not launch automatically > when I login, and that had me confused. Sessions do seem to be > tracked, and it does seem to know which is active. Yepp, normal login sessions dont have a proper session manager, that makes it hard to start services automatically for them. It's one of the reasons console logins really should go away for everything but the most low-level debugging/administration. To remedy that we start PA on-demand on the consoles, i.e. on first use. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4