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hal2050
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 Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 3:49 pm Post subject: [solved] consolekit returns "active = FALSE" |
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hi all,
i'm referring to this bug report: https://bugs.gentoo.org/342291
i was told that my problem is not related to a bug of consolekit, but rather related to an invalid configuration. therefore i hope that anybody could point me into the right direction. 
what i can tell is that everything used to work fine before upgrading to recent versions of relevant packages (please see 2.a).
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0. the problem
ck-list-sessions returns:
| Quote: | - active = FALSE
- is-local = FALSE
- login-session-id = '' |
0.a the result:
it's not possible to reboot, shutdown, suspend the system or to automount removeable media (usb).
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1. my system:
i'm running gentoo as a dedicated htpc system with plain xbmc on top of xorg. there's no de, dm or wm involved.
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2. my setup:
2.a relevant packages:
| Quote: | sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.2-r4 || \
sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.3 (USE="kernel_linux pam policykit")
sys-auth/pambase-20101024 (USE="consolekit cracklib minimal || -minimal sha512")
sys-apps/shadow-4.1.4.2-r6 (USE="cracklib nls pam")
sys-apps/dbus-1.4.0 (USE="null") |
already re-emerged those with the --noconfmem parameter.
2.b kernel config
| Quote: | grep -i CONFIG_AUDIT /usr/src/linux/.config
# CONFIG_AUDIT_ARCH is not set
CONFIG_AUDIT=y
CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=y
CONFIG_AUDIT_WATCH=y
CONFIG_AUDIT_TREE=y
CONFIG_AUDIT_GENERIC=y |
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3. login and xorg / xbmc starting procedure
first of all i defined a global session to prevent users to alter or delete a .xinitrc file in their ~/ directory.
3.a cat /etc/env.d/90xsession
| Code: | | XSESSION="/usr/local/bin/xbmc-gentoo" |
3.b cat /usr/local/bin/xbmc-gentoo
| Code: | #!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/xsetbg -onroot -quiet -fullscreen -display :0
/home/xbmc/Media/Local/Pics/Wallpapers/xbmc_walls.jpg &
/usr/bin/xsetroot -cursor /opt/.modResources/xcursor/emptyCursor.xbm
/opt/.modResources/xcursor/emptyCursor.xbm &
/usr/local/bin/xbmc-wiiremote >/dev/null 2>&1 &
while true; do
DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin --standalone --nolirc
sleep 1
done |
3.c cat /etc/conf.d/local
| Code: | | /usr/local/bin/xbmc-startx >/dev/null 2>&1 & |
3.d cat /usr/local/bin/xbmc-startx
| Code: | #!/bin/bash
USER="xbmc"
SHELL="/bin/bash"
CMD_SU="/bin/su"
ARGS_SU="$USER -s $SHELL -c -l"
CMD_X="/usr/bin/startx"
ARGS_X="vt7 -nolisten tcp -novtswitch +bs -nocursor -br -deferglyphs all -quiet
-allowMouseOpenFail"
while true; do
$CMD_SU - $ARGS_SU "$CMD_X -- $ARGS_X"
done |
4. result
4.a fresh boot
| Code: | ck-list-sessions
Session1:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat2'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ''
x11-display-device = ''
display-device = ''
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = FALSE
on-since = '2010-12-07T18:52:47.915017Z'
login-session-id = ''
Session2:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat3'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ':0'
x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
display-device = ''
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = FALSE
on-since = '2010-12-07T18:52:49.896551Z'
login-session-id = ''
Session3:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat4'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ''
x11-display-device = ''
display-device = '/dev/ssh'
remote-host-name = 'buckaroo.ghostshell'
is-local = FALSE
on-since = '2010-12-07T18:53:11.844999Z'
login-session-id = '1' |
=> active/is-local = false
=> login-session-id gets only assigned to the remote ssh session
4.b /etc/init.d/local restart
| Code: | ck-list-sessions
Session4:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat5'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ''
x11-display-device = ''
display-device = ''
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = FALSE
on-since = '2010-12-07T18:54:56.887529Z'
login-session-id = '1'
Session5:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat6'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ':0'
x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
display-device = ''
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = FALSE
on-since = '2010-12-07T18:54:58.115872Z'
login-session-id = '1'
Session3:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat4'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ''
x11-display-device = ''
display-device = '/dev/ssh'
remote-host-name = 'buckaroo.ghostshell'
is-local = FALSE
on-since = '2010-12-07T18:53:11.844999Z'
login-session-id = '1' |
=> active/is-local = false
=> login-session-id gets assigned
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even if i execute startx manually i won't get active/is-local = true
this does also apply when i manually execute ck-launch-session:
| Code: | Session7:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat8'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ''
x11-display-device = ''
display-device = '/dev/pts/0'
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = FALSE
on-since = '2011-01-02T15:40:40.608361Z'
login-session-id = '3' |
the difference is that i get a login-session-id.
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according to the bug report something is screwed up in my login/autostart procedure.
what's your proposal to solve this issue and is there a better practice to autologin users and to autostart a session?
thanks in advance && regards,
hal2050
Last edited by hal2050 on Wed Jan 19, 2011 1:05 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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hal2050
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:53 am Post subject: |
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anyone  |
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VoidMage
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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| hal2050 wrote: | | anyone |
Don't nag.
Perhaps changing /etc/conf.d/local entry to
| Code: | | ck-launch-session /usr/local/bin/xbmc-startx >/dev/null 2>&1 & |
will help.
But I think the problem lies in using 'su'. |
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hal2050
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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| VoidMage wrote: | | hal2050 wrote: | | anyone |
Don't nag. |
sorry for that. i was just curious that nobody responded yet, although there are a lot of people suffering this issue atm.
| VoidMage wrote: | Perhaps changing /etc/conf.d/local entry to
| Code: | | ck-launch-session /usr/local/bin/xbmc-startx >/dev/null 2>&1 & |
will help. |
i tried that in the past already and it did not work. afaik ck-launch-session has to be run in conjunction with a session (openbox-session, gnome-session, etc.) but not with X directly.
nevertheless i tried your proposal again which results in the same described above.
| VoidMage wrote: | | But I think the problem lies in using 'su'. |
so i disabled the entry in "conf.d/local" to execute startx manually as user without using su in first place. this leads to the same result described above.
edit:
for testing purposes i disabled the entry in "env.d/90xsession" and "conf.d/local". instead i created a .xinitrc in ~/.
| Code: | cat .xinitrc
#!/bin/bash
exec ck-launch-session /usr/local/bin/xbmc-gentoo |
result of "startx &":
| Code: | ck-list-sessions
Session1:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat2'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ''
x11-display-device = ''
display-device = '/dev/ssh'
remote-host-name = 'buckaroo.ghostshell'
is-local = FALSE
on-since = '2011-01-04T13:13:07.679723Z'
login-session-id = '1'
Session3:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat4'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ':0'
x11-display-device = '/dev/tty2'
display-device = '/dev/pts/0'
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = FALSE
on-since = '2011-01-04T13:15:02.656688Z'
login-session-id = '1' |
edit 2:
simply launching a plain session from console
results in
| Code: | Session4:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat5'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ''
x11-display-device = ''
display-device = '/dev/pts/0'
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = FALSE
on-since = '2011-01-04T13:21:49.841513Z'
login-session-id = '1' |
, too. |
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drinstant
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:41 am Post subject: |
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| same problem here. |
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hal2050
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:53 am Post subject: |
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unfortunately i didn't manage to get rid of my problem. :/
i triple-checked ssuominen's consolekit sticky (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858965.html), and had about 99% of his hints in my system already. i'm rather clueless at this point. |
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drinstant
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 11:15 am Post subject: |
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| I managed to get it working. I've also followed that guide without success, got fed up and simply re-emerged dbus dbus-glib pambase gvfs shadow udisks upower polkit with the --noconfmem flag. Then I noticed that consolekit wasn't explicitly emerged, so I re-emerged that one too, with the same flag. In the end, this did the trick. Geez. It already sucks to do revdep-rebuild all the time, but this kind of guesswork is really tedious. |
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hal2050
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 11:26 am Post subject: |
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ok, i've got no problem to re-emerge those packages again.
could you please check the list if there are any differences to yours? only difference i see is i don't use gvfs.
| Code: | emerge -avq1 --noconfmem dbus dbus-glib pambase shadow udisks upower polkit consolekit
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/dbus-1.4.1 USE="X -debug -doc (-selinux) -static-libs -test"
[ebuild R ] dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.92 USE="bash-completion -debug -doc -static-libs -test"
[ebuild R ] sys-auth/polkit-0.99-r1 USE="nls pam -debug -doc -examples -gtk (-introspection)"
[ebuild R ] sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.3 USE="pam policykit -debug -doc -test"
[ebuild R ] sys-fs/udisks-1.0.2 USE="bash-completion nls -debug -doc -remote-access"
[ebuild R ] sys-power/upower-0.9.7 USE="ipod -debug -doc (-introspection)"
[ebuild R ] sys-auth/pambase-20101024 USE="consolekit cracklib minimal sha512 -debug -gnome-keyring -mktemp -pam_krb5 -pam_ssh -passwdqc (-selinux)"
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/shadow-4.1.4.2-r6 USE="cracklib nls pam -audit (-selinux) -skey"
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edit:
i just gave it a shot but as expected it did not help. etc-update only listed "/etc/pam.d/system-login" which i overwrote. |
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drinstant
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Here's what might be the problem: Start X from console with a simple startx as user. I suspect 'su' to be the culprit. I'll test that suspicion later on myself. |
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hal2050
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| Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 10:58 am Post subject: |
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did you test it?
just asking because it didn't make any difference in my tests above. :/ |
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drinstant
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| Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 11:40 am Post subject: |
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yes, to me it made all the difference. I've got
su - instant -l -c 'exec startx -- vt7 >& ~/.xsession-errors' &
in my /etc/conf.d/local which seems to break consolekit. Manual startx works fine. |
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hal2050
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| Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 11:58 am Post subject: |
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that's really strange.
did you execute "startx" locally or while you were on a ssh session?
i always tried this over a ssh session, because i'm using my system as an htpc. maybe it's worth a try to connect a keyboard...
but let's assume this would fix my problem. that leads me to another question. how would i then create some kind of autologin procedure without any dm?
edit:
ok here are some results:
note: consolekit is in the default runlevel.
local login at login prompt:
| Code: | Session5:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat1'
session-type = ''
active = TRUE
x11-display = ''
x11-display-device = ''
display-device = '/dev/tty1'
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = TRUE
on-since = '2011-01-19T12:44:04.066490Z'
login-session-id = '4'
idle-since-hint = '2011-01-19T12:44:44.010608Z' |
well pretty promising. seems to make a real difference whether or not one starts X over ssh or locally.
firing startx while being logged in locally:
| Code: | Session12:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat1'
session-type = ''
active = TRUE
x11-display = ':0'
x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
display-device = '/dev/tty1'
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = TRUE
on-since = '2011-01-19T12:54:47.374403Z'
login-session-id = '4' |
heh. pretty nice. all is in state "true" now.
is it normal that my local shell session gets unactive after starting X?
| Code: | Session13:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat1'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ''
x11-display-device = ''
display-device = '/dev/tty1'
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = TRUE
on-since = '2011-01-19T12:57:29.514985Z'
login-session-id = '5' |
after another research i found a wiki entry at archlinux describing that sudo and su do not work together with consolekit: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Start_X_at_Boot
i guess i'm going to open a new thread to find a solution for a autologin solution.
thanks for your help and hints drinstant!
CONCLUSION:
- sudo and su do not work together with consolekit
- consolekit does not work in case one opens a new session/xsession while being logged in remotely
cheers,
hal2050 |
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