On 2011-08-30, David Purton <dcpur...@marshwiggle.net> wrote: > > --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hi everyone, > > 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.
Yes, I believe it is. Unfortunately, I also believe it is not about to be fixed. consolekit expects the display manager to set the required permissions. gdm and gdm3 (and possibly kdm; I haven't used it recently) do so, whereas other display managers and startx do not. > > With more recent versions of consolekit, my session is not marked as > active, and as a result a bunch of stuff with network-manager doesn't > work. (I know about wicd, but it doesn't support broadband modems.) > > I've googled a plenty and tried different things without success. Any > suggestions? Surely I'm not the only person running debian who doesn't > use a desktop manager? (...) The simplest solution I have found is to override the default consolekit permissions. In the case of suspend and hibernate, these are specified in the file /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.upower.policy. To override, create a new file in /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/, give it a .pkla extension, and add the following content: [upower] Identity=unix-user:* Action=org.freedesktop.upower.* ResultAny=yes With that, I have the freedom to suspend and hibernate when using slim and startx. I have been able to remove gdm3, an important step towards removing all things GNOME-y in wheezy :-) I don't have the network-manager package installed, but apt-file tells me that it contains the files /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy and /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.network-manager-settings.system.policy. Therefore I'm sure you can adapt the above approach to suit your needs. Liam -- Liam O'Toole Cork, Ireland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnj5qmlv.58k.liam.p.otoole@dipsy.tubbynet