Hal and KDM breakage (was Re: KDE4 and input events stalled)
Robert Noland
rnoland at FreeBSD.org
Tue Apr 7 17:33:47 PDT 2009
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 20:27 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 16:53 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > It's not a question of what hal is doing, but rather how
> > console-kit
> > works (and hald depends on console-kit-daemon). It needs to
> > be able to
> > monitor each of the active vtys...
> >
> > This is the part of the picture I'm still missing. *Why* does
> > hald (via console-kit) care about tracking active vtys?
> > (I presume hald actually doesn't care but that some client
> > of hald needs this information.... ???)
>
> ConsoleKit monitors the vtys for active changes so it can provide
> consumers such as hal and PolicyKit information about active sessions.
> In particular, hal uses CK to determine if a user is currently logged in
> on the console, and if so, allows that user to mount certain volumes
> that would otherwise not be allowed.
>
> >
> >
> > .... Bland did some work to correct this in -CURRENT, but it
> > won't work on other versions. It was just easier to leave the
> > hack in
> > place.
> >
> > If this could be universally fixed in all supported versions
> > of FreeBSD,
> > then I would be happy to remove the hacks.
> >
> > I'm still curious whether it's feasible to just not monitor the vtys.
>
> Sure, you can try it. Especially if you're not using GNOME, this might
> be fine. Just remove the hacks from hald's rc.d script.
I wonder if it might be sane to check for enable_gnome="YES" to delay...
robert.
> Joe
>
> >
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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD
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