{"article":{"atomspec":["sys-auth\/consolekit"],"authoremail":"asturm@gentoo.org","authorname":"Andreas Sturmlechner","body":["Modern desktop environments make use of PAM session tracking for users, login sessions and seats. [1] The most user-visible part of that is device and file permissions management and reboot\/shutdown handling without superuser rights.","Users with systemd can stop reading here and continue with their daily routine.","ConsoleKit2 is unmaintained upstream for more than two years [2]. There are many longstanding bugs and papercuts with consumers that aren't being fixed, not least because these code paths receive very little testing.","Enter the elogind project [3], which is a standalone logind implementation based on systemd code, currently maintained by a fellow Gentoo user. We have had sys-auth\/elogind available in Gentoo since the beginning of 2017, and meanwhile it has gained support [4] in KDE Plasma, Gnome [5], Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce, as well as most other former consolekit consumers.","Consequently, the desktop profile is switching away from consolekit to elogind. Users of sys-auth\/consolekit who selected a different profile should consider doing the same. A guide is available [6]. Migration is easy, but any existing consolekit session will be broken, and elogind will only begin to work on relogin.","Rely either on the profile, or set USE=\"elogind -consolekit\" in make.conf yourself. Make sure there is no consolekit debris in \/etc\/portage\/package.use:","# grep -R consolekit \/etc\/portage\/package.use","Rebuild all affected consumers and remove sys-auth\/consolekit:","# emerge --ask --changed-use --deep @world # emerge --depclean consolekit","Optional, but recommended in case of trouble such as missing reboot\/shutdown capabilities in the display manager:","# rc-update add elogind boot","For users of ~\/.xinitrc instead of one of the supported DMs, do not forget to update accordingly (ck-launch-session is gone without replacement).","PS: Subsequently, this will lead to the last-riting of sys-power\/pm-utils [7] which is dead even longer than the original ConsoleKit(1) project. KDE Plasma users sticking with sys-auth\/consolekit are then going to lose suspend from GUI without superuser rights."],"newsid":"2020-04-14-elogind-default","posted":"2020-04-14","title":"Desktop profile switching USE default to elogind","urls":["https:\/\/wiki.gentoo.org\/wiki\/ConsoleKit","https:\/\/github.com\/ConsoleKit2\/ConsoleKit2","https:\/\/github.com\/elogind\/elogind\/blob\/master\/README.md","https:\/\/bugs.gentoo.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=elogind-support","https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/leio\/2019\/03\/26\/gnome-3-30\/","https:\/\/wiki.gentoo.org\/wiki\/Elogind","https:\/\/bugs.gentoo.org\/659616"]}}