Bug 330149

Summary:	unable to automount removable media if gnome started with startx
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Carl Michal <michal>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Carl Michal 2010-07-28 06:13:07 UTC

If I start my gnome session with startx, automounting doesn't work.  If instead I run gdm and start my session with it, automounting works great.

In the startx session, a dialog appears when mounting is attempted that says "Unable to mount (whatever) Not Authorized."  I can still mount the disk with gnome-mount.

I see this with gnome-2.28, but apparently its a problem with gnome-2.30 as well.  There is a workaround posted at 
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-833907-start-0.html
which is to add these two lines:

export XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-
exec ck-launch-session gnome-session

to .xinitrc

that does solve this problem for me, but it seems that ck-launch-session should be used to start the session from within /etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome (maybe after checking if consolekit is running?)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-07-28 06:31:15 UTC

Could you try the "fix" in the duped bug?

Thanks

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 329317 ***