[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#597474: Bug#597474: Auto-mounting of USB devices stopped working

[Stefan Ott]

Okay, this is highly weird.

I did some more research and found some hints on
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#USB_sticks_and_drives_do_not_automount_correctly
- the thing that fixed the issue for me was to set "policy at_console"
to "false" in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf.

Since I didn't really like the idea of messing with dbus/hal config
files I decided to investigate further. The comment above the line I
modified said that this requires consolekit (which is installed on my
system), so I reverted the setting and ran ck-launch-session - and my
problems were gone. Interestingly, this seems to be persistent: even
after a system reboot everything still works.

I have no idea why consolekit stopped working (or why it works again)
but I'll just pretend this didn't happen and close the bug.

Sorry for the noise.
-- 
Stefan Ott
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