diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/consolekit/0001-Don-t-daemonize-when-activated.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/consolekit/0001-Don-t-daemonize-when-activated.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 30f3ab4907b0..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/consolekit/0001-Don-t-daemonize-when-activated.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-Upstream patch
-
-From fc2870a65f6b3ed3b71bcac69c5faf3a9c759c64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
-Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:13:23 -0500
-Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Don't daemonize when activated
-
-It confuses some versions of D-Bus and isn't needed
-(or wanted it).
-
-http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25642
----
- data/org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.service.in |    2 +-
- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/data/org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.service.in b/data/org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.service.in
-index ec2128c..d716a36 100644
---- a/data/org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.service.in
-+++ b/data/org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.service.in
-@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
- [D-BUS Service]
- Name=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit
--Exec=@sbindir@/console-kit-daemon
-+Exec=@sbindir@/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon
- User=root
--- 
-1.7.1
-
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/consolekit/0002-Don-t-take-bus-name-until-ready.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/consolekit/0002-Don-t-take-bus-name-until-ready.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 2af59ac8d1e5..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/consolekit/0002-Don-t-take-bus-name-until-ready.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-Upstream patch
-
-From 2418840248f07025ad0edc96ed17e03ce5e47f3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com>
-Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:14:54 -0500
-Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Don't take bus name until ready
-
-Previously, we would take a bus name right away, but
-not register the manager object until later.  This
-causes a race when being activated by a method call
-on the manager object, where ConsoleKit gets started
-but the method call fails.
-
-https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25744
----
- src/main.c |   16 ++++++++--------
- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
-index 809c6d6..b8f698f 100644
---- a/src/main.c
-+++ b/src/main.c
-@@ -294,11 +294,19 @@ main (int    argc,
- 
-         setup_debug_log (debug);
- 
-+        g_debug ("initializing console-kit-daemon %s", VERSION);
-+
-         connection = get_system_bus ();
-         if (connection == NULL) {
-                 goto out;
-         }
- 
-+        manager = ck_manager_new ();
-+
-+        if (manager == NULL) {
-+                goto out;
-+        }
-+
-         bus_proxy = get_bus_proxy (connection);
-         if (bus_proxy == NULL) {
-                 g_warning ("Could not construct bus_proxy object; bailing out");
-@@ -310,16 +318,8 @@ main (int    argc,
-                 goto out;
-         }
- 
--        g_debug ("initializing console-kit-daemon %s", VERSION);
--
-         create_pid_file ();
- 
--        manager = ck_manager_new ();
--
--        if (manager == NULL) {
--                goto out;
--        }
--
-         loop = g_main_loop_new (NULL, FALSE);
- 
-         g_signal_connect (bus_proxy,
--- 
-1.7.1
-
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/consolekit/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/consolekit/default.nix
index 5cebc5874bd7..87f40d6e10b6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/consolekit/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/consolekit/default.nix
@@ -2,16 +2,14 @@
   libX11, polkit, expat }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "consolekit-0.4.1";
+  name = "ConsoleKit-0.4.4";
   
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://www.freedesktop.org/software/ConsoleKit/dist/ConsoleKit-0.4.1.tar.bz2;
-    sha256 = "0gj0airrgyi14a06w3d4407g62bs5a1cam2h64s50x3d2k3ascph";
+    url = "http://www.freedesktop.org/software/ConsoleKit/dist/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "1bhnjwn7gakwfhqxrmwqwyjq46a11nn463qz0wlddrvgzdlhkh7h";
   };
   
   buildInputs = [ pkgconfig dbus_glib zlib pam glib libX11 polkit expat ];
-  patches = [ ./0001-Don-t-daemonize-when-activated.patch
-    ./0002-Don-t-take-bus-name-until-ready.patch ];
 
   # For console-kit to get the rpath to libgcc_s, needed for pthread_cancel to work
   NIX_LDFLAGS = "-lgcc_s";