[LightDM] ConsoleKit support plans

[Martin Briza]

Hi,

 from what I've tested, LightDM runs quite nice (e.g. you can log in, log  
out, even switch users in a limited way, shutting down, etc. from the  
greeter doesn't work though) without ConsoleKit even in versions where  
systemd-login support isn't complete - note you're experiencing only a  
warning.
In theory, to benefit from systemd-login you should just have the daemon  
running. But please note full support of it was added to version 1.7.0, up  
to this version there were just some patches around that your distribution  
maintainer could have applied.
Please don't take my answer as definitive as I'm not a LightDM maintainer  
but I think the beef is somewhere else in this particular issue.

Regards,
Martin

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:32:07 +0200, hp hpf <hp4everything at googlemail.com>  
wrote:

> Hi,
> I've just installed the current archlinuxarm distribution. It doesn't
> provide a ConsoleKit-package anymore. Systemd-logind is running.
> Lightdm-package has version 1.6.0.
>
> Startup of lightdm fails with
>
> WARNING **: Failed to open CK session:
> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit was not provided by any .service files
>
> Is this a inconsistency in the archlinxarm distribution?
> Or is it my user responsibility to change some configuration files to  
> force
> lightdm to use logind??
>
> Is there any documentation on the lightdm consolekit-logind.switching
> implications?
> BR
> HP