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

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On ven., 2010-09-24 at 00:12 +0200, Stefan Ott wrote:
> 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.

Please read xfce4-session (and xfce4) README.Debian, which explain how
to properly setup the system so it works with consolekit.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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