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Bug 289159 - sys-apps/dbus requires extra configuration (for xfce4?)
Summary: sys-apps/dbus requires extra configuration (for xfce4?)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 275659
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Doug Goldstein (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2009-10-15 06:24 UTC by Neil
Modified: 2009-11-01 21:44 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Neil 2009-10-15 06:24:41 UTC 
Under Xfce4 I found I couldn't set transparency to terminals; right and middle-clicking didn't bring up a menu; wallpaper wasn't displayed on login and appeared after a window had been moved around.

Tracked this down to xfdesktop not running due to dbus errors...

neil@darwin ~ $ xfdesktop
xfdesktop[2470]: starting up

(xfdesktop:2470): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/backdrop/screen0/xinerama-stretch" does not exist on channel "xfce4-desktop"

(xfdesktop:2470): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/desktop-icons/style" does not exist on channel "xfce4-desktop"

(xfdesktop:2470): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/desktop-icons/icon-size" does not exist on channel "xfce4-desktop"

(xfdesktop:2470): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/desktop-icons/font-size" does not exist on channel "xfce4-desktop"

(xfdesktop:2470): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/desktop-icons/use-custom-font-size" does not exist on channel "xfce4-desktop"

(xfdesktop:2470): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/color-style" does not exist on channel "xfce4-desktop"

(xfdesktop:2470): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/color1" does not exist on channel "xfce4-desktop"

(xfdesktop:2470): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/color2" does not exist on channel "xfce4-desktop"

(xfdesktop:2470): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-show" does not exist on channel "xfce4-desktop"

(xfdesktop:2470): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-style" does not exist on channel "xfce4-desktop"

(xfdesktop:2470): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/brightness" does not exist on channel "xfce4-desktop"

(xfdesktop:2470): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/saturation" does not exist on channel "xfce4-desktop"

(xfdesktop:2470): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-path" does not exist on channel "xfce4-desktop"

(xfdesktop:2470): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/desktop-icons/file-icons/show-filesystem" does not exist on channel "xfce4-desktop"

(xfdesktop:2470): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/desktop-icons/file-icons/show-home" does not exist on channel "xfce4-desktop"

(xfdesktop:2470): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/desktop-icons/file-icons/show-trash" does not exist on channel "xfce4-desktop"

(xfdesktop:2470): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/desktop-icons/file-icons/show-removable" does not exist on channel "xfce4-desktop"
process 2470: arguments to dbus_connection_send_with_reply_and_block() were incorrect, assertion "(error) == NULL || !dbus_error_is_set ((error))" failed in file dbus-connection.c line 3439.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
  D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace 

dbus-monitor showed various errors too (for details see [url=http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6012883.html]here[/url], very long output!).

I found the solution was to create a file /etc/dbus/system.d/myuser.conf with the following...


<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
 "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
<busconfig>
        <policy user="jh">
            <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
                  send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device"/>
            <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
                  send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager"/>
        </policy>
</busconfig> 

As detailed [url=http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-771104.html]here[/url]

Reproducible: Always




neil@darwin ~ $ eix -I dbus
[I] dev-libs/dbus-glib
     Available versions:  0.74 (~)0.74-r1 0.76 (~)0.78 (~)0.80 {bash-completion debug doc selinux test}
     Installed versions:  0.80(13:10:12 10/13/09)(bash-completion -debug -doc -test)
     Homepage:            http://dbus.freedesktop.org/
     Description:         D-Bus bindings for glib

[I] dev-python/dbus-python
     Available versions:  0.80.2 0.82.4 (~)0.83.0 0.83.0-r1 {doc examples test}
     Installed versions:  0.83.0-r1(02:39:18 10/12/09)(-doc -examples -test)
     Homepage:            http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DBusBindings http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/
     Description:         Python bindings for the D-Bus messagebus.

[I] sys-apps/dbus
     Available versions:  1.2.3-r1 (~)1.2.12 (~)1.3.0 {X debug doc selinux test}
     Installed versions:  1.3.0(05:34:05 10/15/09)(X debug -doc -selinux -test)
     Homepage:            http://dbus.freedesktop.org/
     Description:         A message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to each other

[I] x11-libs/qt-dbus
     Available versions:  (4) 4.4.2 4.5.1 4.5.2 (~)4.5.3
	{debug pch}
     Installed versions:  4.5.3(4)(13:11:26 10/13/09)(-debug -pch)
     Homepage:            http://qt.nokia.com/
     Description:         The DBus module for the Qt toolkit

Found 4 matches.
Comment 1 Neil 2009-10-15 06:25:14 UTC 
And my emerge --info


neil@darwin ~ $ emerge --info
Portage 2.2_rc46 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.1, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.31-tuxonice x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.31-tuxonice-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_E8400_@_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:00:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p33
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.6.3, 3.1.1-r1
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r3
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.5.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.10.2, 1.11
sys-devel/binutils:  2.19.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ABI="amd64"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
ACCEPT_PROPERTIES="*"
ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol"
APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias"
ARCH="amd64"
ASFLAGS_x86="--32"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CDEFINE_amd64="__x86_64__"
CDEFINE_x86="__i386__"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe"
CFLAGS_x86="-m32"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CHOST_amd64="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CHOST_x86="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CLEAN_DELAY="5"
COLLISION_IGNORE="/lib/modules"
COLORTERM="Terminal"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CVS_RSH="ssh"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe"
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-EWDyHmT6tp,guid=4925305b25a1b9b25297b8004ad6cadc"
DEFAULT_ABI="amd64"
DESKTOP_SESSION="xfce"
DISPLAY=":0.0"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EDITOR="/bin/nano"
ELIBC="glibc"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--verbose --alphabetical --keep-going"
EMERGE_WARNING_DELAY="10"
FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -t 5 -T 60 --passive-ftp -O "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}" "${URI}""
GCC_SPECS=""
GDK_USE_XFT="1"
GDMSESSION="xfce"
GDM_XSERVER_LOCATION="local"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.virginmedia.com http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/"
GLADE_CATALOG_PATH=":"
GLADE_MODULE_PATH=":"
GLADE_PIXMAP_PATH=":"
GTK_PATH=":/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0"
HOME="/home/neil"
INFOPATH="/usr/share/info:/usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.19.1/info:/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.1/info:/usr/share/info/emacs-23"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev"
JAVAC="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm/bin/javac"
JAVA_HOME="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm"
JDK_HOME="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm"
KERNEL="linux"
LANG="C"
LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LDFLAGS_x86="-m elf_i386"
LESS="-R -M --shift 5"
LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s"
LIBDIR_amd64="lib64"
LIBDIR_amd64_fbsd="lib64"
LIBDIR_ppc="lib32"
LIBDIR_ppc64="lib64"
LIBDIR_sparc32="lib32"
LIBDIR_sparc64="lib64"
LIBDIR_x86="lib32"
LIBDIR_x86_fbsd="lib32"
LIBGLADE_MODULE_PATH=":/usr/lib64/libglade/2.0"
LINGUAS="en_GB"
LOGNAME="neil"
LS_COLORS="rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=30;41:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.tlz=01;31:*.txz=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.xz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.svgz=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.flv=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.axv=01;35:*.anx=01;35:*.ogv=01;35:*.ogx=01;35:*.pdf=00;32:*.ps=00;32:*.txt=00;32:*.patch=00;32:*.diff=00;32:*.log=00;32:*.tex=00;32:*.doc=00;32:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:*.axa=00;36:*.oga=00;36:*.spx=00;36:*.xspf=00;36:"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
MANPATH="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.19.1/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.1/man:/etc/java-config/system-vm/man/"
MULTILIB_ABIS="amd64 x86"
MULTILIB_STRICT_DENY="64-bit.*shared object"
MULTILIB_STRICT_DIRS="/lib32 /lib /usr/lib32 /usr/lib /usr/kde/*/lib32 /usr/kde/*/lib /usr/qt/*/lib32 /usr/qt/*/lib /usr/X11R6/lib32 /usr/X11R6/lib"
MULTILIB_STRICT_EXEMPT="(perl5|gcc|gcc-lib|binutils|eclipse-3|debug|portage)"
NETBEANS="apisupport cnd groovy gsf harness ide identity j2ee java mobility nb php profiler soa visualweb webcommon websvccommon xml"
OPENGL_PROFILE="nvidia"
PAGER="/usr/bin/less"
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.4.1"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_ARCHLIST="ppc x86-openbsd ppc-openbsd ppc64 x86-winnt x86-fbsd ppc-aix alpha arm x86-freebsd s390 amd64 x86-macos x64-openbsd ia64-hpux hppa x86-netbsd amd64-linux ia64-linux x86 sparc-solaris x64-freebsd sparc64-solaris x86-linux x64-macos sparc m68k-mint ia64 mips ppc-macos x86-interix hppa-hpux amd64-fbsd x64-solaris mips-irix m68k sh x86-solaris sparc-fbsd"
PORTAGE_BINHOST_CHUNKSIZE="3000"
PORTAGE_BIN_PATH="/usr/lib64/portage/bin"
PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES="css gif htm[l]? jp[e]?g js pdf png"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_DEBUG="0"
PORTAGE_DEPCACHEDIR="/var/cache/edb/dep"
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="log warn error"
PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM="portage@localhost"
PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT="[portage] ebuild log for ${PACKAGE} on ${HOST}"
PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="root"
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save_summary echo"
PORTAGE_FETCH_CHECKSUM_TRY_MIRRORS="5"
PORTAGE_FETCH_RESUME_MIN_SIZE="350K"
PORTAGE_GID="250"
PORTAGE_INST_GID="0"
PORTAGE_INST_UID="0"
PORTAGE_PYM_PATH="/usr/lib64/portage/pym"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_RETRIES="3"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTAGE_VERBOSE="1"
PORTAGE_WORKDIR_MODE="0700"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/perl-experimental /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/panotools /usr/portage/local/layman/science /usr/portage/local/layman/mpd /usr/portage/local/layman/cell /usr/portage/local"
PRELINK_PATH_MASK="/usr/lib64/klibc"
PROFILE_ONLY_VARIABLES="ARCH ELIBC KERNEL USERLAND"
PWD="/home/neil"
RESUMECOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -c -t 5 -T 60 --passive-ftp -O "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}" "${URI}""
ROOT="/"
ROOTPATH="/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.4.1"
RPMDIR="/usr/portage/rpm"
R_HOME="/usr/lib64/R"
SANE_CONFIG_DIR="/etc/sane.d"
SESSION_MANAGER="local/darwin:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/11006,unix/darwin:/tmp/.ICE-unix/11006"
SHELL="/bin/bash"
SHLVL="2"
SSH_AGENT_PID="2228"
SSH_AUTH_SOCK="/tmp/ssh-nNsHjg2227/agent.2227"
STAGE1_USE="multilib nptl nptlonly unicode"
SYMLINK_LIB="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
TERM="xterm"
USB_DEVFS_PATH="/dev/bus/usb"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cdda cddb cdio cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr emacs exif ffmpeg fortran gdbm gimp glitz gnome gpm gtk hal iconv id3tag ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kpathsea lensfun mmx modules mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt4 readline reflection scanner sdl session spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssh ssl svg sysfs tcpd thunar tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis x264 xcb xinetd xorg xulrunner zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" 
USER="neil"
USERLAND="GNU"
USERNAME="neil"
USE_EXPAND="ALSA_CARDS ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS APACHE2_MODULES APACHE2_MPMS CAMERAS CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS DVB_CARDS ELIBC FCDSL_CARDS FOO2ZJS_DEVICES FRITZCAPI_CARDS INPUT_DEVICES KERNEL LCD_DEVICES LINGUAS LIRC_DEVICES MISDN_CARDS NETBEANS_MODULES QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS QEMU_USER_TARGETS SANE_BACKENDS USERLAND VIDEO_CARDS"
USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN="CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS ELIBC KERNEL USERLAND"
USE_ORDER="env:pkg:conf:defaults:pkginternal:env.d"
VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
WINDOWID="31457283"
WINDOWPATH="7:7:7"
XAUTHORITY="/home/neil/.Xauthority"
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="/etc/xdg"
XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/usr/share/gdm:/usr/share"
XDG_SESSION_COOKIE="db0287e550a4b218358a0e3a4ad297d2-1255590620.721953-1263618269"
_="/usr/bin/emerge"
Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-10-24 11:30:41 UTC 
This would be happening if user is choosing to use desktop icons (which includes removable medias, cdrom, floppy etc.) and isn't in "plugdev" group for them.
Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-10-24 11:32:31 UTC 
And is using hal, which says,

elog "If you have problems discovering/configuring hardware, try adding"
elog "yourself to plugdev."

INVALID?
Comment 4 Neil 2009-10-24 16:42:19 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> This would be happening if user is choosing to use desktop icons (which
> includes removable medias, cdrom, floppy etc.) and isn't in "plugdev" group for
> them.
> 



Nope, removed all desktop icons (never use them, as I prefer pulling up a menu or keyboard shortcuts) and its a fresh install and I'd added myself to plugdev straight from the off.
Comment 5 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-11-01 21:44:26 UTC 
sounds like bug #275659

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 275659 ***