Re: Things to check in release notes
Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 17:53 +0100, Justin B Rye wrote:
>> By the way, what's all this (issues.dbk section id="consolekit") about
>> consolekit requiring one of gdm3, kdm, or lightdm? I'm launching my X
>> session from startx like I've always done (after all, why would I want
>> a display manager on a single-user PC?), without doing anything fancy
>> like unsetting XDG_SESSION_COOKIE or customising /etc/X11/Xsession.d/*
>> scripts. I don't see any sign of consolekit issues (ck-list-sessions
>> tells me "is-local = TRUE"). So why are the release-notes advising me
>> to stop using startx?
>
> Apparently not everyone has such success. #690127 is the RN bug, which
> links to (amongst others) #598150.
I think console sessions (and the resulting X session started with
"startx") should work fine as long as libpam-ck-connector is
installed. That would make xdm the main broken case.
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