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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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On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 09:11 +0200, Aragon Gouveia wrote:
> Hi,
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> I've recently installed a new workstation with 7.0-STABLE and the new GNO=
ME
> 2.22 stuff.  I'm running:
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> XFCE 4.4.2
> dbus 1.2.1
> ConsoleKit 0.2.10
> PolicyKit 0.8
> hald 0.5.11.r2
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> I'm booting Xorg with XDM and logging in from there.
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> First question...
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> 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?
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> >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 .

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> Second question...
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> 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

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