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On 02/27/2011 04:54 AM, luis jure wrote: |
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> PENDING ISSUE: on thunar (and xfce, the other file manager i occasionally |
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> use) i can eject the drive but no umount it (i mean the ability to umount |
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> the file system but not delete the mount point under /media) |
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The auth/policy landscape has changed so quickly in the last few months |
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that I can't keep up, but I can tell you that you might want to play with |
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the command-line tools from consolekit and polkit when root-versus-user |
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problems occur. |
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For example, look through the output of pkaction --verbose for this: |
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org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-detach: |
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description: Detach a drive |
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message: Authentication is required to detach the drive |
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vendor: The udisks Project |
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vendor_url: http://udisks.freedesktop.org/ |
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icon: drive-removable-media |
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implicit any: no |
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implicit inactive: no |
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implicit active: yes |
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Look at the last three lines for 'any' 'inactive' and 'active'. What do |
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they mean? |
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They refer to your 'console session', which you can list with ck-list-sessions: |
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Session1: |
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unix-user = '1001' |
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realname = '(null)' |
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seat = 'Seat1' |
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session-type = '' |
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active = FALSE <====== NOTE |
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x11-display = '' |
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x11-display-device = '' |
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display-device = '/dev/tty1' |
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remote-host-name = '' |
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is-local = TRUE |
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on-since = '2011-02-27T14:05:03.842279Z' |
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login-session-id = '1' |
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idle-since-hint = '2011-02-27T14:05:40.005781Z' |
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Session2: |
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unix-user = '1001' |
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realname = '(null)' |
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seat = 'Seat1' |
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session-type = '' |
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active = TRUE <======= NOTE |
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x11-display = ':0' |
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x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7' |
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display-device = '/dev/tty1' |
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remote-host-name = '' |
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is-local = TRUE <======= NOTE |
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on-since = '2011-02-27T14:05:16.819654Z' |
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login-session-id = '1' |
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Session1 is my original login on tty1, from which I typed 'startx'. |
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That session is not active because I'm writing this from inside the |
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gnome desktop, i.e. Session2, which *is* active (note the tty7). |
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The old defunct policykit also dictated whether a session had to be |
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'local' to do certain things, but that may have vanished, dunno. |
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The old policykit came with very simple and understandable tools to |
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set and edit policies, and the defunct gnome-policykit gave you a |
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simple gui frontend so you could tell WTF you were doing. |
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Alas, no more, and the new system is virtually opaque. Not well done, |
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IMHO. |
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My point is (almost forgot it) that automounting stopped working for |
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many months in gnome because consolekit claimed that my ck-session |
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was *not* active and *not* local even though obviously it was both. |
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Some recent update finally fixed that bug, thankfully, but I have |
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no idea which update. |
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