Bug 29920

Summary:	console-kit-daemon holds tty
Product:	ConsoleKit	Reporter:	Leo Borealis <lionmv>
Component:	Daemon	Assignee:	william.jon.mccann
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	egorov_egor, lionmv, radzio.cool, rob, vincent-fdt, vovik-wfa, xiaqqaix
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Leo Borealis 2010-08-31 17:32:07 UTC

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg571838.html

This still actual, but process name console-kit-daemon. KDM\XDM also affected.

ConsoleKit 0.4.1

Comment 1 Leo Borealis 2010-08-31 17:32:55 UTC

This bug appears in Debian and ArchLinux both, may be in other distros.

Comment 2 Vladimir 2010-10-02 11:14:58 UTC

confirming.
Archlinux, consolekit 0.4.1

when console-kit-daemon launches, it grabs currently active vt. 
ck-launch-session does not work on vt grabbed by console-kit-daemon.

This bug breaks qingy experience: can not launch session twice on same tty, it hangs.
If using other DM's, tty7 gets blocked after first use.

Comment 3 Vladimir 2010-10-02 23:49:33 UTC

workaround:

add this line to rc.local to force console-kit-daemon launch on distant tty:
openvt -c 63 -f -- console-kit-daemon --no-daemon &

may not work with some graphical login managers, as they may launch it sooner.

Comment 4 Radosław Piliszek 2010-10-08 12:04:15 UTC

Anything running console-kit-daemon is affected.

Another workaround is to run console-kit-daemon w/o "--no-daemon" before starting any X server.

Otherwise, tty7 gets blocked every time.

Comment 5 Vladimir 2010-10-08 12:37:56 UTC

when running it without "--no-daemon", it grabs currently foreground vt, no matter what vt it was launched from. With "--no-daemon" you can pin it to desired vt in background.

Comment 6 Radosław Piliszek 2010-10-08 12:45:52 UTC

So it can stay on tty1 this way. It does not cause any problems there. I added it to rc.local

Comment 7 Aris Tomaras 2011-03-13 04:49:29 UTC

I have slackware 13.1 64bit and kde 4.4.3 and i have the same problem.
However i did what you suggested, with the rc.local, and it's ok now.

Comment 8 Radosław Piliszek 2011-03-13 07:06:09 UTC

I am worried about no progress. Surely, there is a workaround I've found but a workaround shouldn't be considered as a fix.

Comment 9 Qi Xiao 2011-03-27 21:59:54 UTC

I vote for a fix. Google "tty7 tty8" and you'll see everyone is complaining about the bug... It doesn't really matter (to me), but that's clearly no good behavior.

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