On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:00:02 +0200, Mick wrote about [gentoo-user] Re:
consolekit won't start:

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>After that I restarted xdm which launched kdm as normal.  I guess then
>that there are perhaps some xdm dependencies in the starting sequence
>of consolekit.  I can add it now to rc-update and see what happens
>when I boot up.

Consolekit does not like starting when there are already several
daemon processes running.  So, you should add it to the *boot* run
level, thus allowing it an early appearance.
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Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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