The session's active state is [still] not 100% accurate with consolekit2 despite the fixes in #202269. I'm using lightdm and xfce4. When I log in directly from lightdm, ck-list-sessions reports the session as active. However, if I ever switch to a text console and back to the X11 console, the session is reported as "active = FALSE" with the corresponding side effects (not able to mount removable media, ...) Sometimes, I also have the case that the X11 session remains active even when running ck-list-sessions from a text console. I do not have pam configured to register sessions, thus the only session is the X11 session registered by lightdm, console login or not. I'm using the text console (kern.vty=sc) and the Nvidia driver in case this makes any difference. Please let me know if you need additional information or would like me to run tests. Thanks, --Christian
Forgot to mention: I'm on mainline 11.1-RELEASE-p1
I can confirm the same issue with 11-STABLE r320665 on amd64 using mate desktop. I have not seen the issue with mounting USB media, though. Probably due to differences between MATE and XFCE4. Also of possible relevance, I don't use a sm to start. I log in to VTY1 and startx: exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session mate-session
I cannot reproduce the problem in comment #2 I've not tried the vty=sc E.g swithing tty does not invalidate my active x11 session when coming back to /dev/ttyv8 (my x11 tty) from console (CTRL+ALT+F1..F8 neither with xinit or a DM. How did you both install consolekit2? I'm at 11.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE
I've installed consolekit2 via ports using the default config. Most of my packages are installed via pkg, just a few are from ports. In the case of consolekit2, I used ports because it wasn't available as binary package at that point. If you want, I can check and use the binary package if it's available by now.