Bug 243988 - x11/slim r408067 breaks consolekit2 active session state
Summary: x11/slim r408067 breaks consolekit2 active session state
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2020-02-08 19:56 UTC by Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen
Modified: 2020-06-22 14:59 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

See Also:
henry.hu.sh: maintainer-feedback+


Attachments
Corrects the get_x11_device for FreeBSD (265 bytes, text/plain)
2020-02-15 19:57 UTC, Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen
jsm: maintainer-approval?
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Description Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-02-08 19:56:14 UTC
The fix of bug #206050 in  ports r408067 
breaks active session state for consolekit2 sessions, 
when using slim. Avoiding slim sets the session active as usual.
e.g ck-launch-session /usr/local/bin/startlxqt in .xinitrc
does not give an active session state using slim.

If I delete the files/patch-const.h it works, but then
but #206050 might be back..
This is on FBSD 12.1
Comment 1 Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-02-15 19:57:32 UTC
Created attachment 211677 [details]
Corrects the get_x11_device for FreeBSD

This extra patch results in the following when using slim to login.

#ck-list-sessions
Session1:
        unix-user = '1001'
        realname = 'Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen'
        seat = 'Seat1'
        session-type = 'x11'
        session-class = 'user'
        session-state = 'active'
        active = TRUE
        x11-display = 'unix:0.0'
        x11-display-device = '/dev/ttyv8'
        display-device = ''
        remote-host-name = ''
        is-local = TRUE
        on-since = '2020-02-15T19:52:20.005040Z'
        login-session-id = ''
        XDG_RUNTIME_DIR = '/var/run/user/1001'
        VTNr = '9'
So with the patch slim works as expected with consolekit2 AFAICT
Comment 2 Henry Hu 2020-02-18 04:52:06 UTC
Comment on attachment 211677 [details]
Corrects the get_x11_device for FreeBSD

This patch looks good to me.
Comment 3 Henry Hu 2020-02-18 04:53:11 UTC
Comment on attachment 211677 [details]
Corrects the get_x11_device for FreeBSD

However, for some reason I can't change the maintainer-approval flag.
Comment 4 Gleb Popov freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-06-10 11:20:05 UTC
So, is this ready to be committed?
Comment 5 Samy Mahmoudi 2020-06-11 12:26:16 UTC
Hi all,

I have tested attachment 211677 [details] yesterday and it seems ck-list-sessions only shows active status on the first session (mine is an Xfce session started with the SLiM autologin feature). If I log out and log in, ck-list-sessions shows inactive status.

Could you confirm active status on subsequent logins?
Comment 6 Samy Mahmoudi 2020-06-11 13:43:04 UTC
Moreover, when I have an active status (first session), I can just switch to vt2 and switch back to vt9 to make it inactive. Could you also reproduce this behavior?
Comment 7 Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-06-11 17:41:10 UTC
(In reply to Samy Mahmoudi from comment #6)
I cannot replicate any of those problems,what does your .xinitrc looks like?
Are you using the nvidia-driver with sc or intel and vt console?
Comment 8 Samy Mahmoudi 2020-06-11 18:10:21 UTC
Thank you for your tests and your reply Jesper. It will probably help me to troubleshoot what now happens to be a personal problem.

> what does your .xinitrc looks like?
#!/bin/sh
# SLiM now starts Consolekit
# Xfce now starts DBus

# Temporary workaround
# setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout fr,ru -option grp:alt_space_toggle,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

DB="dbus-launch --exit-with-session"
CK="ck-launch-session"

case $1 in
   slim-autologin)
   # Requires patching SLiM, or SLiM autologin default to *) below !
   # Lets me separate SLiM autologin from vt launch.
      exec startxfce4
      ;;
   default)
   # SLiM default session (To set a system-wide default session, override "default" in slim.conf).
      exec startxfce4
      ;;
   startxfce4)
      exec startxfce4
      ;;
   mate-session)
      exec ${DB} mate-session
      ;;
   start-lumina-desktop)
      exec start-lumina-desktop
      ;;
   lxde)
   # https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/gdbus-error-org-freedesktop-consolekit-manager-generalerror.61540/
      ${DB} startlxde
      exec startlxde
      ;;
   kodi-standalone)
      exec kodi-standalone
      ;;
   *)
      # exec ${CK} ${DB} openbox-session 
      exec startxfce4 --with-ck-launch
      ;;
esac

> Are you using the nvidia-driver with sc or intel and vt console?
I use intel and vt consoles.
Comment 9 Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-06-11 18:46:12 UTC
(In reply to Samy Mahmoudi from comment #8)
Can you try to skip the --with-ck-launch from "exec startxfce4 --with-ck-launch"
Comment 10 Samy Mahmoudi 2020-06-11 21:07:36 UTC
(In reply to Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen from comment #9)
Skipping --with-ck-launch in my .xinitrc has no effect when using SLiM, as I have patched my SLiM so that in the case statement *) exec startxfce4 --with-ck-launch only gets executed from a console start.

To follow you suggestion anyway, I decided to disable SLiM. After a reboot, startxfce4 (without --with-ck-launch) from console makes ck-list-sessions being silent, which is what I would expect.

startxfce4 --with-ck-launch shows active status even after switches from vt ! If I log out, and relog in (from the same context: console + startxfce4 --with-ck-launch) active status is still there ! So your suggestion was definitely helpful, it revealed SLiM is probably the source of the problem (It's not really surprising as I have recently read somewhere that SLiM does not meet freedesktop.org standards relative to ConsoleKit; I can't remember where I have read that but there was said that SLiM is reusing ConsoleKit sessions where it should not do so).

Do you use a display manager or start your desktop environment from the console?
Comment 11 Samy Mahmoudi 2020-06-11 23:37:56 UTC
> Do you use a display manager or start your desktop environment from the console?

Please ignore that last question, I just confused this PR with another one where this question makes sense ;-)
Comment 12 Samy Mahmoudi 2020-06-12 17:00:30 UTC
I first managed to isolate the problem to slim_enable="YES" (onestarting SLiM after boot was OK whereas starting SLiM within the boot sequence was not). This led me examine the boot order, and after some time and effort I found a possible explanation: a sort of race condition between blacklistd and one of DBus/SLiM.

Basically, I used to start blacklistd with the -r flag which was making blacklistd quite long to reload its database into a pf table at boot time (because I had accumulated more than 7000 IP addresses in my /var/db/blacklist.db).

        address/ma:port	id	nfail	last access
   37.49.226.62/32:22	OK	4/3	2020/06/12 16:06:30
   46.37.82.113/32:22		0/3	1970/01/01 01:00:00
   113.178.37.9/32:22		1/3	2020/06/12 14:10:19
 218.149.178.64/32:22		0/3	1970/01/01 01:00:00
 195.39.147.165/32:22		1/3	2020/06/12 15:06:15
  175.112.17.42/32:22		0/3	1970/01/01 01:00:00
  177.198.22.29/32:22		0/3	1970/01/01 01:00:00
    197.39.66.5/32:22		1/3	2020/06/12 14:10:15
196.126.163.206/32:22		0/3	1970/01/01 01:00:00
   192.168.0.35/32:22		0/3	1970/01/01 01:00:00
185.153.196.230/32:22	OK	4/3	2020/06/12 15:59:35
   58.153.93.28/32:22		0/3	1970/01/01 01:00:00

For some reasons that remain unclear at the moment, the ConsoleKit daemon (launched by DBus as a service) was not behaving correctly, as if it had crashed during the boot because of blacklistd -r:

Jun 12 07:40:20 dell7010 console-kit-daemon[1830]: DEBUG: VT_WAITACTIVE for vt 9 returned -1
Jun 12 07:40:20 dell7010 console-kit-daemon[1830]: WARNING: Error waiting for native console 9 activation: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Jun 12 07:40:20 dell7010 console-kit-daemon[1830]: DEBUG: VT_WAITACTIVE for vt 1 returned -1
Jun 12 07:40:20 dell7010 console-kit-daemon[1830]: WARNING: Error waiting for native console 1 activation: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Jun 12 07:40:20 dell7010 console-kit-daemon[1830]: DEBUG: VT_WAITACTIVE for vt 2 returned -1
Jun 12 07:40:20 dell7010 console-kit-daemon[1830]: WARNING: Error waiting for native console 2 activation: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Jun 12 07:40:20 dell7010 console-kit-daemon[1830]: DEBUG: Active session changed: (null)

Adding:

# BEFORE dbus

in /etc/rc.d/blacklistd seemed to solve my ConsoleKit problem (the idea was to force blacklistd -r to start before dbus (hence also before subbsequent ConsoleKit service launch and SLiM launch) but I am not sure that the previous change does what I want in a reliable way. After playing with blacklistd to remember my own choice of adding that -r flag, and a second thought, I chose to simply disable that -r flag which also seemed to solve my ConsoleKit problem.

I might dive into this more thoroughly at some point, to identify the causes more precisely.
Comment 13 Samy Mahmoudi 2020-06-12 17:02:34 UTC
(In reply to Samy Mahmoudi from comment #12)
examine ---> to examine
Comment 14 Samy Mahmoudi 2020-06-12 17:08:43 UTC
So thank you for your help. Let's wait for this to be committed !
Comment 15 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-06-22 14:57:10 UTC
A commit references this bug:

Author: jsm
Date: Mon Jun 22 14:56:36 UTC 2020
New revision: 539811
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/539811

Log:
  Corrects get_x11_device for FreeBSD

  fixes active session state for consolekit2
  transfer maintainership

  PR:	243988
  Approved by:	henry.hu.sh@gmail.com (maintainer)

Changes:
  head/x11/slim/Makefile
  head/x11/slim/files/patch-Ck.cpp