[pulseaudio-discuss] bug : pulseaudio doesn't start when console-kit is not installed

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Sun, 2015-10-25 at 10:33 +0100, Georg Chini wrote:
> On 24.10.2015 16:14, linuxcbon linuxcbon wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I compiled and installed pulseaudio with default settings.
> > But console-kit is not installed in my system.
> > So pulseaudio doesn't start :
> > 
> > E: [pulseaudio] module-console-kit.c: GetSessionsForUnixUser() call
> > failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> > org.ConsoleKit was not provided by any .service files
> > E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-console-
> > kit"
> > (argument: ""): initialization failed.
> > E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
> > E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > linuxcbon
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> If you do not have console-kit installed, you should not load
> the module. Remove it from default.pa.

We should not cause such problems by default, though. I think module-
console-kit should just log a warning, not abort the whole daemon
loading process if ConsoleKit isn't installed.

-- 
Tanu