systemd-logind sessions are not set up properly if `startx` is used

[Paul Donohue]

In Raring and earlier, ConsoleKit was used for session management, and /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90consolekit took care of preparing ConsoleKit sessions via `ck-launch-session` when X was started via `startx` instead of a graphical login manager.

In Saucy, ConsoleKit has been replaced with systemd-logind, which has no equivalent for ck-launch-session and requires X to be started on the same terminal as the console used to run `startx`.

Could /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc be replaced with the following to accommodate this and ensure that systemd-logind works properly with `startx`?

#!/bin/bash

TTY="${TTY:-$(tty)}"
TTY="${TTY#/dev/}"
if [[ $TTY != tty* ]]; then
  printf '==> ERROR: invalid TTY\n' >&2
  exit 1
fi
printf -v VT 'vt%02d' "${TTY#tty}"

exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -dpi 100 "$VT" "$@"

This script comes from http://blog.falconindy.com/articles/back-to-basics-with-x-and-systemd.html
Some additional references:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/362403/how-to-create-a-new-logind-session-while-running-xinit-from-the-console
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806491
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71171

[Laurent Bigonville (bigon)]

This should be fixed in 1.3.3-1 that I just uploaded in debian

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xinit - 1.3.4-1

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xinit (1.3.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload.
  * New upstream release.
    - Drop d/p/07-Pass-files-to-cpp-via-CLI-arg-instead-of-stdin-to-wo.patch,
      d/p/08-Bump-required-util-macros-version-to-1.19.patch,
      d/p/09-Replace-RAWCPPFLAGS-with-TRADITIONALCPPFLAGS-when-pr.patch,
      d/p/10-startx-Under-Linux-start-X-on-the-current-VT.patch,
      d/p/11-startx-Pass-vtX-as-long-as-the-user-did-not-specify-.patch:
      Merged upstream
    - debian/patches/001_debian_xinitrc.diff: Refreshed
  * Fix debian/patches/03_debian_startx_manpage.diff, a Debian specific note
    was not shown anymore
  * debian/rules: Make /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc executable to make lintian happy
    and also to fix LP: #491696

 -- Laurent Bigonville <email address hidden> Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:00:29 +0200