Bug#450603: kdm: Please add support for ConsoleKit
Michael Biebl
Version: 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hi Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers,
the pkg-utopia team is going to upload a hal version to experimental,
which has compiled in support for ConsoleKit/PolicyKit and we plan to
upload this version to unstable later if nothing goes awfully wrong.
This means, that hal clients in the desktop session have to be active,
in order to call hal methods ( at least for stuff like
Suspend()/Hibernate()/Mount() ).
For this to work, the login manager has to register the session on login
with ConsoleKit. Then ConsoleKit allows to track, if the desktop session
is active or not. This allows to fix many longstanding issues with
regard to fast user switching.
gdm already has support for ConsoleKit (upstream) and the attached patch
also adds ConsoleKit support to kdm. It only adds a dependency on D-Bus.
Running kdm without ConsoleKit being installed is still possible, so
it's perfectly safe to include this patch now, even if the current hal
version in unstable doesn't require it yet.
This is a heads up, to give you enough time to upload an updated kdm
version, before the CK/PK enabled hal version is uploaded to unstable.
So please consider to add this patch to your next upload.
Cheers,
Michael
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages kdm depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.16 Debian configuration management sy
ii kdebase-bin 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-1 core binaries for the KDE base mod
ii kdebase-data 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-1 shared data files for the KDE base
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-3 core libraries and binaries for al
ii libc6 2.6.1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdbus-1-3 1.1.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgcc1 1:4.2.2-3 GCC support library
ii libpam-runtime 0.99.7.1-5 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 0.99.7.1-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.7-9 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libstdc++6 4.2.2-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 authorisation library
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii libxtst6 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Testing -- Resource extension
ii xbase-clients 1:7.3+3 miscellaneous X clients - metapack
Versions of packages kdm recommends:
ii logrotate 3.7.1-3 Log rotation utility
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.3+3 the X.Org X server
-- debconf information excluded
Michael Biebl
a PolicyKit/ConsoleKit enabled hal version (0.5.10-2exp1) is now
available in experimental in case you want to test the ConsoleKit
support in kdm.
Cheers,
Michael
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