Re: X respawns on tty8 instead of tty7

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:24:34 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
> > I am running Sid and X thru startx.
> > It appears that on restarting X the tty it uses dwells to tty8. I wonder
> > why I want that feature, it's annoying. 
>
> This happened from time to time also in wheezy and starting GNOME as 
> usual (by means of GDM). The X sessions "jumped" from tty7 to tty8 or 
> tty9...
>
> > Found a reference to it:
> > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103765 'Psycho_zs' gives a
> > solution to it: start console-kit-daemon on vt63, down the page.
> > This seems to 'fix' it. I think.
> > Why does consolekit do this?
>
> The user points to this bug which is still opened:
>
> console-kit-daemon holds tty
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29920

Yes, I noted the jumps tty7-9-10 as well with gdm3. So to avoid the 
jumps, put:

openvt -c 63 -f -- console-kit-daemon --no-daemon &

in /etc/rc.local before the 'exit 0'.

It "works" I guess because now upon quitting and restarting X I always 
have X at tty7, which is what I want instead of pecking and searching 
where X hides itself.

But I admit that the reason for the fix is not obvious to me. BTW I now 
have 61 tasks in my system of console-kit-daemon, hope it needs them all.

Hugo