[ConsoleKit] Active VT tracking can fail at startup

Leen Besselink consolekit at consolejunkie.net
Tue Aug 24 02:43:56 PDT 2010


On 08/24/2010 12:52 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Tue, 24.08.10 00:30, Leen Besselink (consolekit at consolejunkie.net) wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I'm willing to do the coding, although I've not done C in ages and don't
>> know consolekit very well, I just want to know how you want it to be
>> fixed (proper).
>>     
> No, we prefer things to stay broken. ;-)
>
> Wouldn't this patch fix things for you as a side effect?
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=37970
>
> Lennart
>
>   
Hi,

just had someone try my patch and it didn't work for them:

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/54250488/cc.log

It looks like the kernel gives us a console_fd, but it is useless
because it does not work with the sysctl at that time.

So we need to poll to get a working console_fd ? :-(




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