DBus might return empty string for active-session, probably in a non user session (e.g. gdm). It is better to keep the variable as NULL as we check against that (but never against empty strings). --- src/console-kit.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/console-kit.c b/src/console-kit.c index 9da1165..3a72657 100644 --- a/src/console-kit.c +++ b/src/console-kit.c @@ -357,7 +357,12 @@ static char *console_kit_check_active_session_change(struct session_info *info) } dbus_message_iter_get_basic(&iter, &session); - info->active_session = strdup(session); + if (session != NULL && session[0] != '\0') { + info->active_session = strdup(session); + } else { + syslog(LOG_WARNING, "(console-kit) received invalid session. " + "No active-session at the moment"); + } dbus_message_unref(message); /* non blocking read of the next available message */ -- 2.5.5 _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel