Consolekit cannot open session....

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ex_bubblehead · Post by **ex_bubblehead** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 6:39 pm

When logging in to KDM I get the following:

"Warning: Cannot open ConsoleKit session: Unable to open session: Unable to get information about the calling process"

This started spontaneously. Worked just fine on the first login of the day, and after a reboot, there it was.

"ck-list-sessions" returns nothing (blank).

dbus and consolekit are both in the default run level.

I've re emerged dbus, consolekit, polkit with no change. I even ran "emerge -ev @world" as a just in case.

Disabled autostart of xdm and tried 'startx' from console with no joy.

The relevant part of messages looks like this:

Feb 2 10:11:02 deathstar dbus[1135]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.Polic
yKit1' (using servicehelper)
Feb 2 10:11:02 deathstar polkitd[1421]: Started polkitd version 0.112
Feb 2 10:11:03 deathstar polkitd[1421]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d
Feb 2 10:11:03 deathstar polkitd[1421]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rul
es.d
Feb 2 10:11:03 deathstar polkitd[1421]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 1 rules
Feb 2 10:11:03 deathstar dbus[1135]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedeskto
p.PolicyKit1'
Feb 2 10:11:03 deathstar polkitd[1421]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 on the
system bus
Feb 2 10:11:06 deathstar dhcpcd[1234]: eth0: leased 192.168.1.3 for 86400 seconds
Feb 2 10:11:06 deathstar dhcpcd[1234]: eth0: adding route to 192.168.1.0/24
Feb 2 10:11:06 deathstar dhcpcd[1234]: eth0: adding default route via 192.168.1.1
Feb 2 10:11:06 deathstar dhcpcd[1234]: forked to background, child pid 1448
Feb 2 10:11:09 deathstar kernel: nvidia 0000:01:00.0: irq 43 for MSI/MSI-X
Feb 2 10:11:09 deathstar acpid: client connected from 1556[0:0]
Feb 2 10:11:09 deathstar acpid: 1 client rule loaded
Feb 2 10:11:21 deathstar kdm: :0[1638]: Cannot open ConsoleKit session: Unable to open session: Unable to get information about the calling process
Feb 2 10:11:22 deathstar kdm: :0[1638]: pam_unix(kde:session): session opened for user gmartin by (uid=0)
Feb 2 10:11:22 deathstar kdm: :0[1638]: pam_ck_connector(kde:session): nox11 mode, ignoring PAM_TTY :0
Feb 2 10:11:30 deathstar dbus[1135]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.UPower' (using servicehelper)
Feb 2 10:11:30 deathstar dbus[1135]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.UPower'
Feb 2 10:11:31 deathstar dbus[1135]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.UDisks2' (using servicehelper)
Feb 2 10:11:31 deathstar udisksd[1763]: udisks daemon version 2.1.2 starting
Feb 2 10:11:31 deathstar dbus[1135]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.UDisks2'
Feb 2 10:11:31 deathstar udisksd[1763]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.UDisks2 on the system message bus
Feb 2 10:11:32 deathstar dbus[1135]: [system] Activating service name='org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' (using servicehelper)
Feb 2 10:11:32 deathstar dbus[1135]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper'

The difference between working and not working is that I no longer see any entries in messages from dbus about activating the org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit service.

'emerge --info'

Portage 2.2.8-r1 (default/linux/x86/13.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.8.2, glibc-2.18-r1, 3.12.8-gentoo i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.12.8-gentoo-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9450_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem: 8305848 total, 6688660 free
KiB Swap: 4194300 total, 4194300 free
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 21:15:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.24
ccache version 3.1.9 [disabled]
app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45-r1
dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0
dev-lang/python: 2.7.6, 3.2.5-r3, 3.3.3
dev-util/ccache: 3.1.9-r3
dev-util/cmake: 2.8.12.2
dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2
sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4
sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r4, 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.4, 1.14.1
sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r2
sys-devel/gcc: 4.8.2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8
sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2
sys-devel/make: 4.0-r1
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.13 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc: 2.18-r1
Repositories: gentoo x-portage
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync"
FFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://192.168.1.10/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi akonadi alsa archive berkdb branding bzip2 cairo caps cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cleartype cli colordiff consolekit cracklib crypt css cups curl cxx dbus declarative dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif expat fam ffmpeg fftw flac fluidsynth fontconfig fontforge foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp glib gphoto2 gpm grub gstreamer gtk handbook icons iconv ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java java6 joystick jpeg kde kipi lcms ldap libedit libnotify libsamplerate libwww mad midi mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg nano-syntax ncurses nls nntp nptl nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp oss pam pango pcre pdf perl phonon plasma png policykit posix ppds pulseaudio python qt3support qt4 readline scanner sdl semantic-desktop session smp spell sse sse2 sse3 sse4 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg tcpd theora threads tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vdpau vorbis wavpack wmf wxwidgets x264 x86 xcb xcomposite xft xine xinerama xml xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xrandr xrender xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yv12 zip zlib" ABI_X86="32" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="canon ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev mouse keyboard joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en en_US" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="epson" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
USE_PYTHON="2.7 3.2 3.3"
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

VoidMage · Post by **VoidMage** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 12:22 am

Did you get any warnings about kernel settings while building consolekit ?

ex_bubblehead · Post by **ex_bubblehead** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 1:06 am

None at all. I've made sure that all appropriate kernel configs are set. What's curious is that this installation was working just fine before the reboot. No updates or other changes were made immediately before. The kernel has been in use for almost a week before this started.

letchideslandes · Post by **letchideslandes** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 5:02 pm

Same here, Restart with old kernel doesn't change anything. I continue my investigation.

I have many machine with Gentoo KDE, and the only with this bug is the x86 one. Other are amd64 and work fine.

gentoothinkpad ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.2.8-r1 (default/linux/x86/13.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.8.2, glibc-2.18-r1, 3.12.8-gentoo i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.12.8-gentoo-i686-Intel-R-_Celeron-R-_CPU_900_@_2.20GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem: 1966900 total, 1075016 free
KiB Swap: 2101676 total, 2101676 free
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 06:00:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.24
app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45-r1
dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0
dev-lang/python: 2.7.6, 3.3.3
dev-util/cmake: 2.8.12.2
dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2
sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4
sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.4, 1.14.1
sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r2
sys-devel/gcc: 4.8.2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8
sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2
sys-devel/make: 4.0-r1
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.13 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc: 2.18-r1
Repositories: gentoo x-portage
Installed sets: @gstreamer, @monkde, @ryzom
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi avahi berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus declarative dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gpm iconv ieee1394 ipv6 jpeg jpeg2k kde kipi lcms ldap libnotify mad mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg ncurses networkmanager nls nptl ogg openexr opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf phonon plasma png policykit ppds pulseaudio qt qt3support qt4 readline samba sdl semantic-desktop session spell sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg tcpd tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb v4l2 vaapi vorbis wxwidgets x264 x86 xattr xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xscreensaver xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ABI_X86="32" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="fr" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, SYNC, USE_PYTHON

Ivar_Y · Post by **Ivar_Y** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 12:35 am

I had a similar problem. My ConsoleKit and emerge.log in /var/log indicated that dev-libs/gobject-introspection-common, dev-libs/glib, and dev-libs/gobject-introspection packages were updated shortly before the problem appeared. All were included as test packages in /etc/portage/package.keywords. The problem disappeared after I deleted them from that file and reemerged them, then reemerged sys-apps/dbus.

ex_bubblehead · Post by **ex_bubblehead** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 3:40 am

Ivar_Y wrote:I had a similar problem. My ConsoleKit and emerge.log in /var/log indicated that dev-libs/gobject-introspection-common, dev-libs/glib, and dev-libs/gobject-introspection packages were updated shortly before the problem appeared. All were included as test packages in /etc/portage/package.keywords. The problem disappeared after I deleted them from that file and reemerged them, then reemerged sys-apps/dbus.

Tried that..... No change. The curious thing is that all of my amd64 systems work just fine. All systems are at the same revision level on all packages and kernel versions. Only the x86 installation has the problem.

thrasibule · Post by **thrasibule** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 4:12 am

Same here on x86 as well. Pulseaudio and networkmanager not working either.

ex_bubblehead · Post by **ex_bubblehead** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 4:28 am

I solved the Pulseaudio problem by making sure that my user was a member of the audio group.

It's beginning to look like a change was made that affected the x86 side of the house. I'll bet that none of the devs run such systems so such was never tested.

thrasibule · Post by **thrasibule** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 4:51 am

Adding the user to the audio group shouldn't be needed. It's another symptom of consolekit being broken somehow.

Ivar_Y · Post by **Ivar_Y** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:34 am

The behavior is puzzling. I did some more experimenting on my amd64 machine (which was the one used above). Everything works fine if I use the test versions of the introspection packages and the stable version of the glib package. If I use the test version of the glib package, the problem reappears. I also have an X86 machine (I5 core). It works fine with test versions for all the packages including glib.

Incidentally, when the ConsoleKit problem is present, I also lose all audio.

thrasibule · Post by **thrasibule** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 3:02 pm

What do you mean by test version of packages? Unstable packages as in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" (or "~amd64" for you amd64 machine)?

thrasibule · Post by **thrasibule** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 3:57 am

So I confirm that dev-libs/glib-2.38 is the culprit. If I mask it and reinstall dev-libs/glib-2.36 then everything is back to normal. What I don't understand is that glib-2.38 should be masked. If you check on packages.gentoo.org, it shows up as hard masked. I think what happenned is that somehow it got unmasked for the x86 profile (and not for amd64), but I can't figure out why.

ex_bubblehead · Post by **ex_bubblehead** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 4:10 am

Interesting. Porthole shows dev-libs/glib-2.38.2 available for all ~arch's, not hard masked at all. All my systems run ~arch and so have 2.38.2. Back leveling to 2.36.4-r1 had no effect here.

Ivar_Y · Post by **Ivar_Y** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 12:16 pm

What do you mean by test version of packages? Unstable packages as in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" (or "~amd64" for you amd64 machine)?

I meant that a version is a test version if it listed in /etc/portage/package.keywords as "dev-libs/glib ~amd64" and a stable version if it is there as "# dev-libs/glib ~amd64", i.e., commented out.

The gentoo architecture nomenclature can be confusing, e.g., "...AMD64 is a generic reference to 64-bit chips, whether AMD or Intel" (from https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AMD64/FAQ). x86 suggests a 32-bit architecture that is Intel compatible.

Blaubaer · Post by **Blaubaer** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 1:40 pm

Im also having this problem, also on x86.

Looking around on the net, i found out that consolekit is not maintained anymore, so is there a chance that this bug get fixed at all?

Is there a easy way to get rid of consolekit and have the same functionality (without switching to systemd)?
Especialy i need the feature to mount usb-devices in kde the way it works with consolekit.

letchideslandes · Post by **letchideslandes** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 9:43 pm

So, i'll try to switch to systemd

SamuliSuominen · Post by **SamuliSuominen** » Fri Feb 07, 2014 6:13 am

Blaubaer wrote:Im also having this problem, also on x86.

Looking around on the net, i found out that consolekit is not maintained anymore, so is there a chance that this bug get fixed at all?

Is there a easy way to get rid of consolekit and have the same functionality (without switching to systemd)?
Especialy i need the feature to mount usb-devices in kde the way it works with consolekit.

It is maintained (at Gentoo) and both Gentoo and Debian developers are keeping it working at upstream git. The fact that original upstream moved on to systemd (logind) and that there isn't much commits in git just means the software is mature.

I'm using all the latest packages here without issues, so other than the apparent misconfiguration issues this thread is referencing, I'm not aware of any actual bugs that'd prevent it from working at this time.

Entirely different story if KDE dropped ConsoleKit support like GNOME 3.8+ did of course, that'd mean the *ConsoleKit backend in KDE is not maintained* not that *ConsoleKit is not maintained*
Using Xfce myself and all is good

ex_bubblehead · Post by **ex_bubblehead** » Fri Feb 07, 2014 6:35 am

@ssuominen, are you running KDE on ~x86? The problem only seems to affect that arch, and backleveling doesn't fix it. All of my ~amd64 machines are running just fine. There is most definitely a problem, and it cropped up only a week or so ago. I can assure you that there are no misconfigurations on my machines.

Randy Andy · Post by **Randy Andy** » Fri Feb 07, 2014 9:13 am

ex_bubblehead wrote:@ssuominen, are you running KDE on ~x86? The problem only seems to affect that arch, and backleveling doesn't fix it. All of my ~amd64 machines are running just fine. There is most definitely a problem, and it cropped up only a week or so ago. I can assure you that there are no misconfigurations on my machines.

I can state this kind of trouble I'm also affected by. Also only on my ~x86 Netbook, not on my ~amd64 system. I update these systems nearly on a daily basis and this fault starts around the weekend of the 01. Frebruary.
I tried to downgrade lots of packages described in this thread, but it doesn't work for me.

Additionally to the misbehavior described in this thread, I have the following trouble, but I'm not fully sure it has a connection, cause before I've done the update which broke my system, I've done some use-flag changes to get rid of some networkmanager connection weakness.
So I removed the dhcpcd package and flags, added the dhclient flag and updated my system in a way like this #emerge -DuvaN @world.

Since this time I fiddle around with the "Warning: Cannot open ConsoleKit session: Unable to open session: Unable to get information about the calling process" fault.
Additional I can't configure the networkmanager connections via GUI any longer.

The plasma-nm Symbol in the menue bar shows only the LAN socket since this time, but the WLAN connection works fine further longer. No SSID's of the surrounding WLAN stations are could be shown now.
Adding new connections via GUI doesn't help. No old or new connections are not shown within the connection manager.

So I presume all of this should have to do with ConsoleKit session error.

Lastly any help is very appreciated.

letchideslandes · Post by **letchideslandes** » Fri Feb 07, 2014 6:28 pm

Switching to systemd resolve my problems.
I had planned to test systemd, now it's done.

Randy Andy · Post by **Randy Andy** » Fri Feb 07, 2014 6:45 pm

letchideslandes,
in my opinion that is not the right way to find the root cause and also not a good way for me.

If this would be the right and only way to sort out this kind of error, a crazy idea came to my mind.

"Possibly a worse plan of LP who is/was involved into the development of both Packages (consolekit and systemd)".

No wonder that some guys here asked around, how to get rid of all that LP software packages from their system.

Regards, Andy.

ExecutorElassus · Post by **ExecutorElassus** » Tue Feb 11, 2014 5:18 pm

I'm using FVWM (%&$!! YEAH OLDSKOOL), with glib-2.38.2 and most recent ConsoleKit. I log in using kdm, and I have exactly these problems. I'm on ~amd64. Does remerging glib fix this issue, or is there some other config that needs to be changed?

Cheers,

EE

Ivar_Y · Post by **Ivar_Y** » Tue Feb 11, 2014 6:26 pm

Try using "dev-libs/glib-2.36.4-r1", which is, I think, the latest stable version of glib. It works for me.

ExecutorElassus · Post by **ExecutorElassus** » Tue Feb 11, 2014 11:42 pm

I was given to understand that downgrading glib is nontrivial. Is that not the case?

Cheers,

EE
PS- it is, indeed, nontrivial: half a dozen packages depend on the 2.38.* series of glib; what are the issues to consider when contemplating moving over to systemd? Or should I just suck it up and do without audio until whatever is wrong with this glib and KDE gets resolved?
PPS- ZOMG you guys, the latest update for KDE (I synced it this afternoon) fixes the issue. drop to a shell, restart consolekit (not sure if needed?), re-start kdm, and the issue seems resolved. Huzzah!

Randy Andy · Post by **Randy Andy** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 9:37 am

Fuck,

this Info came one day too late for me, after one week of hassle.

Cause downgrading of glib is non trivial, I decided to went back to a backup of the version before, but without backing up this none functional version.
Now I have to recompile my whole world and libreoffice again, on my Atom Netbook.

ExecutorElassus,

could you please paste the last updated packages of your emerge.log, which seems to solve this problem for you.
I'm interested in the root cause package, which is further longer not really clear to me. (really dev-libs/glib ?)

Does anyone have seen a bug-report stating this in the meantime.

Best regards, Andy.