console-kit-daemon

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from afuentes's message of Mon Jan 16 01:07:50 -0800 2012:
> Im not sure if I can safely remove console-kit-dameon from servers. From
> time to time, ive get a process with 100% usage cpu of
> console-kit-daemon and i have to kill it. When I try to purge it, it
> tries to uninstall things like dbus. Is dbus not needed by anything
> else?. What is console kit doing anyway?

It is only necessary if you have multiple users who want to login to the
system's console.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ConsoleKit

For most servers, this isn't the case, and so it can probably be safely
removed.

Look at its reverse dependencies, I'm not even sure why you'd see it
installed on a server, unless you also installed the GUI. Its possible
it is part of the server install seed.