Bug 232553 – sys-auth/consolekit-0.2.10 forking many console-kit-daemon

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Niko Efthymiou 2008-07-21 11:04:43 UTC]

I am not sure if this is a bug or not, but anyway. On my system after an uptime of 4 days there as about 40 console-kit-daemon processes. This somehow doesnot feel right. Is this normal behavure?

Killing them doesn't seem to affect system operation.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
I can't exactly reproduce this. It just happens over time.

Actual Results:  
$ ps -A | grep console-kit | wc -l
43


$ emerge --info
Portage 2.2_rc1 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.3.1, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r5-i686-mobile_AMD_Athlon-tm-_XP-M_2500+-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:45:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r5, 2.5.2-r5
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.2.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r3
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.62-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.25-r4
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -ggdb"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/vpopmail/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -ggdb"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks parallel-fetch preserve-libs sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS=""
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib ac3 acl alsa amr apache2 audiofile bash-completion bzip2 cdio cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdnav dvdread encode exif fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac font-server fontconfig fortran gdbm gif hal iconv imagemagick isdnlog jack jpeg jpeg2k ladspa lame laptop libsamplerate mad midi mmx mmxext mng mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg openmp pam pcre pdf png pnm pppd readline real reflection session sndfile speex spell spl sse ssl svg tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype unicode vidx vim-pager vim-syntax vorbis win32codecs wmf x264 x86 xinerama xorg xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="sis"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2008-07-21 16:34:35 UTC]

Yes it's normal behavior. I don't remember a link off to the top of my head. But some basic Googling will give you info. Basically you need 1 process per terminal/console/etc.

[Comment 2 Niko Efthymiou 2008-07-21 18:58:36 UTC]

well I don't have 40 terminals open.

[Comment 3 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2008-07-21 19:07:01 UTC]

You have 40 X application windows, terminals, etc opened.