ConsoleKit-0.4.3 doesn't work for PLD, was: Re: Network-Manager nm-applet-0.8.2 is broken.

[Fryderyk Dziarmagowski]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:06:15 +0000
Przemo Firszt <przemo at firszt.eu> wrote:

> Dnia 2010-12-19, nie o godzinie 21:49 +0000, Przemo Firszt pisze: 
> > Hi,
> > [przemo at pldmachine ~]$ nm-applet
> > ** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
> > ** Message: applet now embedded in the notification area
> > 
> > ** (nm-applet:3424): WARNING **: <WARN>  activate_connection_cb():
> > Connection activation failed: No user settings service available
> > 
> > nm-applet shows all wifis in my area, but refuses to connect. Works fine
> > for root or started with sudo. Any ideas how to fix it?
> > 
> > My NetworkManager.conf file:
> > 
> > [przemo at pldmachine ~]$ cat /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf 
> > 
> > [main]
> > plugins=ifcfg-rh,keyfile
> > no-auto-default=00:16:d4:3b:10:02,
> 
> nm-applet problems, usb mounting problems and accessing sound device
> problems - all of them have been boiled down to ConsoleKit-0.4.3.
> There was a change between 0.4.1 (works) and 0.4.3 (doesn't work) that
> makes 0.4.3 unusable in PLD for the moment. More details here:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598150
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28377

0.4.3 works here, above bug reports are spotting some configuration
problems not related to CK.

> For CK-0.4.1:
> ck-list-sessions shows for current session
> active = TRUE
> and everything (nm-applet, sound, mounting usd drives) works fine.
> 
> For CK-0.4.3:
> ck-list-sessions shows for currens session
> active = FALSE
> and nothing from above list works...

CK session was not started properly (there are some missing bits in PLD
to run it out of a box).

> The attached patch has been found in the debian bug report. It fixes the
> issue, but it's a simple revert of the changes that introduced the
> problem. It _should_not_ be pushed to the PLD repo without discussion
> about possible side effects.

There is no reason to revert it.

> Reagrds,
> Przemo Firszt

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Fryderyk Dziarmagowski