On Tue 30 Aug 2011 at 11:22:07 +1000, David Purton wrote: > I have not been able to get consolekit working properly since version > 0.4.1-4. > > I believe it is something to do with bug #597937. I have xfce4 (unstable) started with startx. Replacing consolekit with Squeeze's version (and putting it on hold) and installing policykit-1 and libpam-ck-connector marks the X session as 'active'.