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OldTango
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 Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:08 pm Post subject: Gnome-2.28 automounting fails when using startx |
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I have been logging in from a console using the basic stratx command for years. Now if I login using startx, Gnome 2.28 fails to automount any media when it is inserted.
I receive a pop-up window stating "Unable to mount (whatever)" "Not Authorized". (whatever) refers to the type of media I have inserted, as gnome detects it properly. If I open the Disk-Utility, I can manually mount and unmout the media or drive. If I try to use eject I also get the 'Not Authorized" notice.
If I start xdm from the console instead of X and log in through GDM (the configured DISPLAYMANAGER). Gnome's automounting works perfectly.
I would prefer to boot to the console then be able to run startx or any other program or preform maintenance when necessary.
I need some help sorting this all out, as I most likely missed something during the update of gnome.
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VoidMage
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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You should probably start with consolekit - as you use 'startx',
you probably need it running in default runlevel.
Probably 'ck-launch-session' needs to be added in the .xsession/.xinitrc. |
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OldTango
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:35 am Post subject: |
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| VoidMage wrote: | You should probably start with consolekit - as you use 'startx',
you probably need it running in default runlevel.
Probably 'ck-launch-session' needs to be added in the .xsession/.xinitrc. |
Thanks
I do have consolekit in the default runlevel and started.
| Code: | tango michael # rc-update -s
acpid | default
alsasound | boot
avahi-dnsconfd | default
bootmisc | boot
checkfs | boot
checkroot | boot
clock | boot
consolefont | boot
consolekit | default
cupsd | default
dbus | default
esound | default
gpm | default
hald | default
hostname | boot
keymaps | boot
local | default nonetwork
localmount | boot
modules | boot
net.eth0 | default
net.lo | boot
netmount | default
nfsmount | default
ntp-client | default
rmnologin | boot
sshd | default
syslog-ng | default
timidity | default
udev-postmount | default
urandom | boot
vixie-cron | default |
I have never used the .xinitrc method to startx. So I created the file and set it up according to the X and gnome setup documentation. I restarted X and gnome but instead of the "Not Authorized" message window I received "Access Denied".
Maybe I need to rebuild some apps after I setup the .xinitrc file. Which ones? I'm not sure.
From The X Server Configuration HOWTO
| Code: | Using startx
Now try startx to start up your X server. startx is a script that executes an X session, that is, it starts the X servers and some graphical applications on top of it. It decides which applications to run using the following logic:
* If a file named .xinitrc exists in the home directory, it will execute the commands listed there.
* Otherwise, it will read the value of the XSESSION variable and will execute one of the sessions available in /etc/X11/Sessions/ accordingly. You can set the value of XSESSION in /etc/env.d/90xsession to make it a default for all the users on the system. For example, as root, run echo XSESSION="Xfce4" > /etc/env.d/90xsession. This will create the 90xsession file and set the default X session to Xfce4.
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My /etc/env.d/90xsession is set to "Gnome".
From The GNOME Configuration HOWTO
| Code: | Let us first take a look at what we just built. Exit your root shell and log on as a regular user. We will configure our session to run GNOME when we issue the startx command (see also Using startx in the X Server Configuration Howto):
Starting with gnome-base/gnome-session-2.26.2, you will need to prepend the XDG_MENU_PREFIX variable to get the Gnome menus if you're using the ~/.xinitrc method to start your desktop. (If you're not using ~/.xinitrc, it will be handled automatically for you; no additional configuration is needed.)
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Not sure where to go from here as this problem only seems to occur to systems using the startx command.
TIA. |
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VoidMage
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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What exactly did you put into .xinitrc ?
Did you look at the script that's used when no ~/.xinitrc is present ? |
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OldTango
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| Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 2:16 am Post subject: |
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| VoidMage wrote: | What exactly did you put into .xinitrc ?
Did you look at the script that's used when no ~/.xinitrc is present ? |
Thanks again.
Good question on ~/.xinitrc. I can't remember exactly all I put in it and it is extremely possible I left out very important information or had it mis-configured in some way. I have never had that file to the best of my knowledge so I am not even sure what it should contain. Maybe someone could post a working copy of one that I could use as a starting point. With all the recent changes and updates it is highly possible this file is required now when using startx alone.
As for the script that is used when no ~/.xinitrc is present, again I am lost here as I don't know which script is ran and where it is located at the moment. I will have to do some digging around to find it, it can't be that hard to locate.
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dolney
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| Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 4:23 am Post subject: |
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To get automount working with gnome-2.30 + startx, I had to change this line in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/30-dbus:
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eval `$dbuslaunch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
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command="$dbuslaunch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session $command" |
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caguiar
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| Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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I had the same problem, to solve it I had to create the file ~/.xinitrc with the following contents:
export XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-
exec ck-launch-session gnome-session
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rimsky
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| Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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| sometims the ".xinitrc" metod was helping me but after some emerege world updates I have that problem again. |
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