Bug 287103 – kde doesn't start unless /etc/init.d/consolekit is started

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description John Armitage 2009-09-30 14:35:09 UTC]

After an update which included kde-base/kdelibs-4.3.1-r2 and kde-base/kdm-4.3.1 (which was already installed) kdm takes me back to the login screen after entering my password if /etc/init.d/consolekit is not started.  Nowhere have I seen that I need to start the consolekit service.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2009-09-30 16:30:57 UTC]

If you use consolekit useflag it is quite obvious you have to run the service too...
So give us output of emerge -pv kde-base/kdm

[Comment 2 John Armitage 2009-09-30 16:45:16 UTC]

Consolekit useflag is enabled, my point was I didn't have the service running before the latest updates and everything was working.

[Comment 3 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2009-09-30 17:03:15 UTC]

So?
even ebuild say:
        if use consolekit; then
                echo
                elog "You have compiled 'kdm' with consolekit support. If you want to use kdm,"
                elog "make sure consolekit daemon is running and started at login time"
                elog
                elog "rc-update add consolekit default && /etc/init.d/consolekit start"
                echo
        fi