Questions tagged [console-kit]

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Why 60+ console-kit-daemon processes?

I have over 60 processes of console-kit-daemon that won't stop reappearing after I've used sudo killall console-kit-daemon. I have no idea what the daemon is for. I'm running ubuntu 10.04. What's going on?
Zolomon
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GLib-CRITICAL console-kit-daemon

A fresh install of 14.04 with KDE installed yields the following error: [...] Jan 8 13:58:19 linuxtest4 console-kit-daemon[1969]: GLib-CRITICAL: Source ID 20 was not found when attempting to remove it Jan 8 14:41:34 linuxtest4…
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How to let NetworkManager manage WLAN interface after upgrade?

I upgraded a Ubuntu system from 11.04 to 11.10 via do-release-uprade. Now some things does not work as before. For example now, my user needs to be part of the scanner group to be able to use xsane etc. - with < 11.10 this apparently was not…
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How to disable console-kit-daemon in Xubuntu 12.10?

I just want to know how to disable console-kit-daemon in Xubuntu 12.10. Background In the last months I tried Ubuntu and I faced a memory error related to console-kit-daemon that spawned too much threads and was eating some 500mb of memory... I had…
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How should I determine if a user is logged in graphically while lightdm is running?

I want to know if someone is logged into a local X-session. In the past I looked at the output of ck-list-sessions. The output looked something like this: Session12: unix-user = '[redacted]' realname = '[redacted]' seat = 'Seat1' …
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Policykit - E17 without LightDm: Problems with Webcam and Connection manager

I'm using E17 without LightDm ( it saves about 200 mb ram ). I manage to do that easily and now I'm starting E17 with the old nice startx and a .xinit file in my home root. my .xinit : exec dbus-launch enlightenment_start the issue: when I try to…
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how to roll back broken privileges in 14.04?

I am running Ubuntu 14.04.3 32bit OS. A few months ago I wanted to install QTCAM from source which it requires systemd library files. As you know 14.04 Ubuntu doesn't use systemd yet, so, as the author said I compiled and installed systemd218…
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Shutdown button in menu does nothing in 14.04

I have a clean install of Ubuntu 14.04 in which the "Shutdown" and "Restart" button's bring up the "Shutdown/Restart" dialog but upon clicking one of these options, does nothing. By nothing I mean, there is not even feedback from the UI that I've…
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How to get via SSH the active DISPLAY for a locally logged-in user?

I need to get the active DISPLAY for any logged in user, so if they enter through SSH, they can query it. Under Ubuntu 12.04, I used a script that, using the consolekit dbus interface, iterated through the active sessions, matching the user UID. A…
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14.04 server glib critcal: source id x

Console keeps giving me this error glib critcal: source id x was not found when attempting to remove it I don't know why it gives me this. If someone could give me some log to give ill post it? Srry for the lack of information. Edit: I figured…
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