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

Sun Feb 26 22:47:42 CET 2012

Le 23/01/2012 15:51, Olav Vitters a écrit :
+> FYI,
+>
+> 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.
+>
+> I made a tracker bug on GNOME Bugzilla:
+> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=systemd
+>
+> Modules I noticed (and added to the tracker bug):
+>   - NetworkManager
+>   - gnome-settings-daemon
+>   - gnome-session
+>   - gnome-control-center
+>   - gnome-packagekit
+>   - system-monitor
+>
+> And related to systemd:
+>   - gnome-control-center (timedated)
+>     This just relies on the daemon to be there; systemd doesn't need to
+>     be running (99% sure of this), the daemon is part in the systemd
+>     tarball.
+>     We do need to ensure Mageia 2 always has timedated. This is used to
+>     change the timezone and so on btw.
+>
+>
+> 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.
+I don't know if you performed some actual changes, but I'm facing 
+painful session start issue now:
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4708
+
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