Launching an X server from an existing CK session leads to no session being registered for that server

[crabman]

In intrepid I used to start a second xserver running openbox on my tv where i tun elisa, firefox and other stuff.

since installing a clean jaunty there is no sound when i am on the second X. When i switch (using Alt+F7) i can hear the sound of both X-servers. When i switch back (Alt+F9) sound disappers again.

EDIT:
I found this bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433675
i am having EXACLTLY the same problem as Marcin Zajaczkowski, but using ubuntu. In the bug report the use of "ck-xinit-session" seems to solve the problem but i cant find it in ubuntus repos.

[Janne Hyötylä (janne-hyotyla)]

Confirmed.

Workaround:
You can execute "ck-launch-session" in the second X-Server. Then sound will work again (but you will have sound mixed from both xservers).

Since it's not clear to me where exactly the bug is, I'm further subscribing the ubuntu-x-swat team

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

The ck-* prefix indicates its a consolekit thing. Looks like ck-xinit-session is a redhat thing used to set something up with consolekit on x sessions.

Not sure there's really actually any X11 bug here... just sounds like some script or something that needs to be run when xinit starts up.

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

How do you launch a second X server?

What's the output of ck-list-sessions when you can't hear the sound?

Thanks,

James

[Janne Hyötylä (janne-hyotyla)]

Hi James,

I launch the 2nd X server by logging in on a text console and typing:
$ xinit /usr/bin/xterm -- :1

Attaching the output of ck-list-sessions:
* After logging in at text console (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F1) [can hear sound playing from 1st X server]
* After starting the 2nd X server, typed in the xterm that started with it [no sound]
* After executing ck-launch-session from the xterm [can hear sound again]

Further notes:
After changing to the text console, sound stops playing, but resumes when successfully logged in.

Don't know how relevant, but anyway: After executing ck-launch-session from the 2nd X server, the history of the xterm changes to match the one that I have in terminals of the 1st X server.

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

So, what I think happens is that ck creates a session for you on
the text console. You then launch and X session from it, and switch
to it, away from the VT that the session is associated with, so
it thinks there are no active sessions.

You can try running

  $ ck-launch-session xinit /usr/bin/xterm -- :1

or

  $ xinit ck-launch-session /usr/bin/xterm -- :1

to force a new session.

Fixing this properly would require nested session support in ck I think.

Thanks,

James

[Janne Hyötylä (janne-hyotyla)]

 $ ck-launch-session xinit /usr/bin/xterm -- :1

works well.

[Serrano Pereira (serrano-pereira)]

Since Ubuntu 11.04, the trick with ck-launch-session no longer works. Now I'm running Ubuntu 12.04. I get no sound even after running ck-launch-session, but this used to work up to Ubuntu 10.10. Is there a different way to register a session for the second X server?

[f1621106 (f1621106)]

For those who bumped into this page while looking for solution, it's here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/147547/how-to-get-sound-in-a-separate-x-server-in-ubuntu-11-04-or-later