Tips and tricks for ConsoleKit, PolicyKit, and udev helpers

[unimatrix_zero]

Hello!
Using KDE-4.6 here on ~amd64. I followed the sticky bit by bit but am not able to get it working.
polkit-kde-agent is crashing on each system start and nothing automount-related works. Any ideas?
Under the polkit-kde-kcmodules there are no options at all.
Any help appreciated

Hello Martux

same issues here!!
Did you get a soulotion? If yes please conatct me

[unimatrix_zero]

Hello!
Using KDE-4.6 here on ~amd64. I followed the sticky bit by bit but am not able to get it working.
polkit-kde-agent is crashing on each system start and nothing automount-related works. Any ideas?
Under the polkit-kde-kcmodules there are no options at all.
Any help appreciated

Hello Martux

same issues here!!
Did you get a soulotion? If yes please conatct me

Resolving polkit-kde-agent crashing with segfault bey removing an old plasmarc in my ~

but mounting with udisks

Cannot find device with major:minor 8:17: Failed to execute program /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

And "success" connoted successful

[cjubon]

Thanks for this guide. However, I cannot get rid of hal.

i did everthing recommended here as well as on the kde upgrade guide, but after removing hal, kdm won't start:

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mazeltov ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm restart
ERROR: xdm did not start because hald would not start

There seems to be a hidden dependency somewhere in my config. equery belongs /etc/init.d/xdm tells me that the xdm init script has been installed by xorg-server, but re-installing that latter one didn't help. Also, I remember there was a NEEDS_HAL option a while ago in some file in /etc (/conf.d ?) but I cant find it any more.

My system is an up-to-date amd64 stable install with kde-4-6.3.

Thanks for your advice.

[cwc]

Thanks for this guide. However, I cannot get rid of hal.

i did everthing recommended here as well as on the kde upgrade guide, but after removing hal, kdm won't start:

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mazeltov ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm restart
ERROR: xdm did not start because hald would not start

There seems to be a hidden dependency somewhere in my config. equery belongs /etc/init.d/xdm tells me that the xdm init script has been installed by xorg-server, but re-installing that latter one didn't help. Also, I remember there was a NEEDS_HAL option a while ago in some file in /etc (/conf.d ?) but I cant find it any more.

My system is an up-to-date amd64 stable install with kde-4-6.3.

Thanks for your advice.

emerge --search hal

app-misc/hal-info
Latest version available: 20091130
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 141 kB
Homepage: http://hal.freedesktop.org/
Description: The fdi scripts that HAL uses
License: GPL-2


sys-apps/hal [ Masked ]
Latest version available: 0.5.14-r4
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 927 kB
Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal
Description: Hardware Abstraction Layer
License: || ( GPL-2 AFL-2.0 )

azzerare ~ # more /etc/portage/package.mask
sys-apps/hal

I had to remove hal-info and hal. I did not have any dependencies.

azzerare ~ # uname -a
Linux azzerare 2.6.38-gentoo-r6 #6 SMP Sun Jun 12 18:12:20 PDT 2011 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Running gnome not kde.

[cjubon]

Thanks for your answer, I removed both hal and hal info, but that's not the point. With dependencies, I didn't mean portage dependencies, but dependencies in the init scripts. I can perfectly remove hal and portage won't complain nor try to reinstall it, but xdm won't start any more.

What I need to now is which config option in a probably stale configuration file causes the xdm init script to abort when it there is no running hal.

Thank you for further suggestions.

[the_mgt]

What I need to now is which config option in a probably stale configuration file causes the xdm init script to abort when it there is no running hal.

Mabye you did this already, but grep for hal in /etc/init.d (and /etc/conf.d, but I doubt that is the clue).
If you are using openrc/baselayout-2 you might even have something in /etc/rc.conf (This fits your needs_hal description, I think)

If in doubt, grep all of /etc

[unimatrix_zero]

Hello!
Using KDE-4.6 here on ~amd64. I followed the sticky bit by bit but am not able to get it working.
polkit-kde-agent is crashing on each system start and nothing automount-related works. Any ideas?
Under the polkit-kde-kcmodules there are no options at all.
Any help appreciated

Hello Martux

same issues here!!
Did you get a soulotion? If yes please conatct me

Resolving polkit-kde-agent crashing with segfault bey removing an old plasmarc in my ~

but mounting with udisks

Cannot find device with major:minor 8:17: Failed to execute program /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

And "success" connoted successful

The solution for me is/ was

chmod o+x /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper

after that all is well and i´m happy

[cjubon]

Mabye you did this already, but grep for hal in /etc/init.d (and /etc/conf.d, but I doubt that is the clue).
If you are using openrc/baselayout-2 you might even have something in /etc/rc.conf (This fits your needs_hal description, I think)

Thanks, but I did that already, but to no avail. Strange thing, there is the error message ("Error: xdm did not start because hald would not start"), this must be produced by some file, but I can't find it (e.g. by grepping "would not start" in /etc/init.d/* or whatever).

I'd really like to get rid of hal.
Thanks for further suggestions.

[the_mgt]

this must be produced by some file, but I can't find it (e.g. by grepping "would not start" in /etc/init.d/* or whatever)

The error text is probably somewhere under /usr/bin or /usr/share or where the script that runs the whole init stuff is residing. So just grep for "hal" through /etc. Also check /etc/rc.conf if you use openrc.
What about "strace /etc/init.d/xdm start"?

[i92guboj]

I have been having problems with consolekit authorisation using Qingy with XFCE. It turns out that on my systems at least, if Qingy is using the DirectFB frontend and starts the X server on the tty that it is running on (the default setting) then the session is inactive.

Changing:

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x_server_tty = qingy_tty

to

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x_server_tty = unused_tty

in /etc/qingy/settings fixes it

I was pointed in the right direction by the current bug in DirectFB-1.4.9 which stopped Qingy using DirectFB - if Qingy is running from the console then everything works correctly anyway.

HTH

I was facing the same problem:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-67 ... ml#6731768

I just filed a bug, let's see if we can have this silly thing fixed.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372675

[xsilentmurmurx]

hey everyone

someone probably already asked this in this topic but what authentication agent should be used if the desktop environment is OPENBOX?

[dan2003]

I've just updated and run into what may or may not be this same issue.

I cannot mount/umount usb sticks in kde (4.6.4) - they don't even show up.

I have gone through all the steps in the first post, but no luck. I have tried very lasest kernel (2.6.39.2) and have the relevant options set.

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dan@MANGO ~ $ ck-list-sessions 
Session2:
        unix-user = '1000'
        realname = '(null)'
        seat = 'Seat1'
        session-type = ''
        active = TRUE
        x11-display = ':0'
        x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
        display-device = ''
        remote-host-name = ''
        is-local = TRUE
        on-since = '2011-07-03T10:59:05.491903Z'
        login-session-id = '4294967295'

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dan@MANGO ~ $ udisks --mount /dev/sdb1 
Cannot find device with major:minor 8:17: Failed to execute program /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

Neither dbus-monitor --system or --session show any info about my USB device being found, but it shows under /dev and can be mounted with mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/

I have remerged dbus, udev, upower, parted, udisks and some others - all are current ~amd64.

Reboot and shutdown work fine.

Any ideas what to try next?

[dan2003]

I managed to fix this issue - Somehow the gid for messagebus group in /etc/passwd did not agree with that in /etg/group - after fixing this it all works - I do recall retrieving one of these files from a previous backup at some point having screwed it up. This must have put things out of sync.

[grimm26]

I just read through this rather long post and I can't figure out why my Restart and Shutdown buttons won't work in Xfce 4.8. All they do is log me out of my session and then I have to use the shutdown button in GDM to actually shutdown.

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% ck-list-sessions
Session1:
        unix-user = '8687'
        realname = 'Mark'
        seat = 'Seat1'
        session-type = ''
        active = TRUE
        x11-display = ':0'
        x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
        display-device = ''
        remote-host-name = ''
        is-local = TRUE
        on-since = '2011-07-18T01:45:15.343637Z'
        login-session-id = '4294967295'
% grep AUDIT /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_AUDIT_ARCH=y
CONFIG_AUDIT=y
CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=y
CONFIG_AUDIT_WATCH=y
CONFIG_AUDIT_TREE=y
qa4437@shadow ~ % uname -a
Linux shadow 2.6.39-gentoo-r3 #1 SMP Sun Jul 17 13:19:52 CDT 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

hal is not installed. It looks to me like things should work. What do I need to check?

[jon.clugston]

I am having the exact same problem - Restart and Shutdown buttons don't work (they just log out) in Xfce 4.8. It used to work, but when I upgraded to Xorg 1.10.2 (from 1.9.something) it stopped working.

[grimm26]

I've actually had it work a couple of times now, but not consistently. I did re-emerge xfce-base/xfce-utils, xfce-base/xfce4-panel, and gdm hoping that might shake something loose .

[turtles]

Here is a small checklist to get a working ConsoleKit and PolicyKit setup for your console and X11.

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# rc-update add dbus default
# rc-update add consolekit default

Nice guide.
However I wonder about two items:
Does it matter if these are started at boot or default?
I think I start consolekit at boot and dbus in default.
I cant remember why.

Setting the

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dbus

use flag did not require a recompilation of anything for me.
Are you sure this is not just set by default?

[luizm929]

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Brasidas user # ck-list-sessions
Session2:
	unix-user = '0'
	realname = 'root'
	seat = 'Seat1'
	session-type = ''
	active = TRUE
	x11-display = ''
	x11-display-device = ''
	display-device = '/dev/tty1'
	remote-host-name = ''
	is-local = TRUE
	on-since = '2011-08-12T02:20:44.612157Z'
	login-session-id = '2'

I dont know what other data to post here.

[_AxS_]

SLIM users: Make sure to include "ck-launch-session" in login_cmd at /etc/slim.conf, or /etc/X11/Sessions/<your session> or in ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession file at home directory. It's really up to you where you want to put it, just be sure it's there only once and you are not duplicating previous location! You can detect such duplication
by simply looking at 'ck-list-sessions' output and comparing "x11-display-device" lines where /dev/tty7 should only appear once.

Here is an working example for running Xfce:

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$ grep ^login_cmd /etc/slim.conf 
login_cmd    exec ck-launch-session startxfce4

For any readers that get this far, as of slim-1.3.2-r5 and above, slim will manage ck-launch-session through it's default Xsession startup script. There is no need to modify slim.conf anymore. Please see the post-install elog of x11-misc/slim for more information.

[|Quantum|]

This is getting ridiculous. Pam/consolekit/policikit is supposed to be BETTER?!
At least hal worked out of the box. Now, I haven't seen a working shutdown button and automounted disks for almost a year.
I tried everything there is to try as was suggested in this long thread.

Sorry for the rant, needed to get it out.

[Fenril]

For those who have still problem with getting an active session, think about this :
with my new config, i have installated Gentoo then Xfce. When i launch my DE with the "exec ck-launch-session startxfce4" i don't get an active session, i don't know why. The only way i get an active session is with edited /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, like this :

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#!/bin/sh

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then
    xrdb -merge "$userresources"
fi

if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
    xmodmap "$usermodmap"
fi

# start some nice programs


if [ -n "`/etc/X11/chooser.sh`" ]; then
	command="`/etc/X11/chooser.sh`"
else
	failsafe="yes"
fi

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then
	for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/* ; do
		[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
	done
	unset f
fi

if [ -n "$failsafe" ]; then
	#tvm &
	#xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
	#xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
	#xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
	#exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login
	exec ck-launch-session startxfce4
else
	exec $command
fi

Launch your DE with "startx" and voila !
I know it's not the best way because it sets a default DE that you put on system xinitrc for all users of the computer. Maybe this for those still can't get active session.

[audiodef]

xfce should startx with

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ck-launch-session dbus-launch xfce4-session

within /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc

ck-launch-session startxfce4 does not work for me (no power managment, no mount)
and
ck-launch-session xfce4-session is not enough (I can't mount/umount media by desktop or Thunar,
but can do it in terminal emulator).

I can approve this. Thanks for this info!

If you mean in this section:

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# Run xfce4-session if installed
if which xfce4-session >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    xfce4-session

    if test "$ssh_agent_kill_cmd"; then
        echo "running '$ssh_agent_kill_cmd'"
        eval "$ssh_agent_kill_cmd"
    fi

    exit 0
fi

Replacing xfce4-session with the above suggestion actually removes the suspend and hibernate options on my system, in addition to greying out shutdown and restart.

[audiodef]

I'm still unable to get the shutdown and reboot to work from the XFCE4 applications menu. Suspend, hibernate and logout work, but after going through the first four pages - assiduously - of this thread and trying everything suggested therein, I felt it was time to just post.

I'm totally stumped, since, as I said, logout, hibernate and suspend work, but reboot and shutdown will not. Three times, shutdown actually worked immediately after trying something in this thread, but after the first time, with no additional changes, reverted to its old behavior: attempting to reboot or shutdown from the XFCE4 applications menu goes to the login screen.

ck-list-sessions:

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Session4:
	unix-user = '1001'
	realname = '(null)'
	seat = 'Seat1'
	session-type = ''
	active = TRUE
	x11-display = ':0.0'
	x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
	display-device = ''
	remote-host-name = ''
	is-local = TRUE
	on-since = '2011-08-28T21:07:42.331932Z'
	login-session-id = '2'
Session1:
	unix-user = '1001'
	realname = '(null)'
	seat = 'Seat2'
	session-type = ''
	active = FALSE
	x11-display = ':0.0'
	x11-display-device = ''
	display-device = ''
	remote-host-name = ''
	is-local = TRUE
	on-since = '2011-08-28T21:07:16.610867Z'
	login-session-id = '1'
Session3:
	unix-user = '1001'
	realname = '(null)'
	seat = 'Seat3'
	session-type = ''
	active = FALSE
	x11-display = ':0.0'
	x11-display-device = ''
	display-device = ''
	remote-host-name = ''
	is-local = TRUE
	on-since = '2011-08-28T21:07:42.288830Z'
	login-session-id = '2'

/etc/sudoers:

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root ALL=(ALL) ALL
#%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
%users ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/lib64/xfce4/session/xfsm-shutdown-helper

EDIT: Upgrading to xfdesktop 4.8.2 fixed this for me.

[msalerno]

XFCE 4.8.0 - Automount works and shutdown - have not tested everything else.
SLIM 1.3.2-r3

The only issue I have come across so far is when I log in via SLIM, the path is incorrect.

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$ echo $PATH
/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin

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$ ssh localhost
...
$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.5.3:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.4.5:/opt/ICAClient:/opt/android-sdk-update-manager/tools:/opt/android-sdk-update-manager/platform-tools

When I undo the recommended changes in the /etc/slim.conf, the PATH is properly set, but automount and the other options do not work.

I went through all of the pages of this thread and did some searching and I couldn't find another occurrence of this happening. I'm sure I'm not the only one. I'm thinking that I have something screwed up with the runlevels, but it's happening on 2 different stable gentoo systems

[msalerno]

Issue with path resolved.


Rather than using the config given for the slim.conf

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login_cmd    exec ck-launch-session startxfce4

The below line works

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login_cmd	exec /usr/bin/ck-launch-session /bin/bash -login /usr/share/slim/Xsession %session