[clug] KDE fails to log in on the first attempt

[Brendan Jurd]

2009/8/14 Brendan Jurd <direvus at gmail.com>:
> I did find the following in my syslog after the login failure ...
> maybe relevant, I'll do some more Googling.
>
> Aug 14 21:08:53 localhost kdm: :0[6544]: Cannot open ConsoleKit
> session: Unable to open session: Launch helper exited with unknown
> return code 0
> Aug 14 21:08:53 localhost kdm: :0[6544]: Client start failed
> Aug 14 21:08:53 localhost kdm: :0[6544]: Cannot close ConsoleKit
> session: Unable to close session: no session open
>

[SOLVED]

Ran rc-update and noticed that consolekit wasn't set to start
automatically.  I added it to the default runlevel, rebooted and
logged in successfully on the first attempt.

Cheers,
BJ