Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 14:46:44 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Aragon Gouveia <aragon@phat.za.net> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New policykit/consolekit/hald problem(s) Message-ID: <1210531604.49665.9.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20080511071119.GA77668@phat.za.net> References: <20080511071119.GA77668@phat.za.net>
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--=-TFTZzkibs7B1WtBVkoVU Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 09:11 +0200, Aragon Gouveia wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I've recently installed a new workstation with 7.0-STABLE and the new GNO= ME > 2.22 stuff. I'm running: >=20 > XFCE 4.4.2 > dbus 1.2.1 > ConsoleKit 0.2.10 > PolicyKit 0.8 > hald 0.5.11.r2 >=20 > I'm booting Xorg with XDM and logging in from there. >=20 > First question... >=20 > In the past when I wanted to get removable storage devices mountable via = the > GUI I'd just have to add my user to the operator group. This no longer > works. I've edited my PolicyKit.conf file according to the HAL FAQ and g= ot > it working that way, but my question is, is it possible to get the old > behaviour back? >=20 > >From what I've read GDM creates a session with ConsoleKit when a user lo= gs > in, and the existance of that session alleviates the need for PolicyKit.c= onf > editting. Is it possible to get that happening with XDM? (ie. maybe call= ing > cmd line tools from .xsession?) You're free to look at the code GDM uses, and adapt it for other DMs. This is also ck-launch-session. You should have a look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/xinit/+bug/199486 . >=20 > Second question... >=20 > My hald doesn't seem to pick up my optical drive when it starts up. If I > insert a disc nothing happens, and lshal shows no trace of any acd device= s > (despite them being present and working). I've attached my hald startup > log. There's an error about hald-addon-acpi failing to load, and there is > no trace of that binary in /usr/local/libexec. I tried recompiling the > port but the build does not create it either. Any suggestions? You're missing a lot of detail. Re-read the FAQ, and post all the required information. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-TFTZzkibs7B1WtBVkoVU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkgnPwkACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4fc0gCfW/MTQ1e5k12+plD9vdsiNhrB ZQwAn0l7Yk7VNgx59v/xg52HzIOoWaOA =5i+t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-TFTZzkibs7B1WtBVkoVU--
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