[Mageia-dev] ConsoleKit vs systemd session tracking for Mageia 2

Fri Feb 24 10:35:07 CET 2012

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 03:51:25PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
+> A bunch of GNOME modules now have --enable-systemd configure flags. This
+> will make them use systemd instead of (deprecated ConsoleKit) to track
+> login sessions.
+[..]
+> These seem to be compile time checks. Meaning: if --enable-systemd is
+> added to ./configure, the functionality won't work on sysvinit. I am not
+> sure exactly what will break under sysvinit. The bugreports to contain
+> some discussion though.
+
+Update
+
+Apparently some of the GNOME modules automatically fall back to
+ConsoleKit even with compiled with --enable-systemd. Only a few GNOME
+modules do not fallback (at runtime). I talked to someone from Arch
+(heftig) who wants to make all GNOME modules automatically fall back to
+ConsoleKit.
+Arch will default to sysvinit with an option to choose systemd. 'Heftig'
+would add the bugs (patches) he'll file to the existing systemd tracker
+bug (@ GNOME Bugzilla).
+
+I think it is good to wait until after Mageia 2. This as we haven't been
+using the systemd support up to now, so it might break things. Further,
+I don't know when heftig will have all his patches ready.
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+