Console kit stop and start on Fedora 12
Not clear if this is really useful, but since I’m at it: I killed the Console Kit daemon as root (by process number) and nothing happened except for the following in /var/log/messages:
Apr 14 17:24:52 gnome-session[3378]: WARNING: Could not connect to ConsoleKit: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit': no such name Apr 14 17:24:52 gnome-session[3378]: WARNING: Could not connect to ConsoleKit: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit': no such name Apr 14 17:24:53 gnome-session[3378]: WARNING: Could not connect to ConsoleKit: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit': no such name Apr 14 17:24:54 gnome-session[3378]: WARNING: Could not connect to ConsoleKit: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit': no such name Apr 14 17:24:55 gnome-session[3378]: WARNING: Could not connect to ConsoleKit: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit': no such name
That seemed a bit worrying, so I re-enabled it:
# ck-launch-session dbus-launch DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-7yqpBheDeT,guid=77eb3eaa0dca8e1b552d2436cc025ecd DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID=26249
And there it’s back again:
$ ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
[...]
root 26177 0.0 0.0 4113796 2820 ? Sl 17:29 0:00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon
And it has a huge Virtual Memory image, which is why I killed it to begin with, thinking it was leaking. So there was no problem to begin with.