Tips and tricks for ConsoleKit, PolicyKit, and udev helpers

ad_meis · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 12:00 pm Post subject:

I am still not done with the de-hal transition. I have two systems: laptop + desktop.
I have performed all the steps in the checklist, but only the laptop is doing good.

On the desktop I still cannot mount/unmount usb from thunar, and I cannot suspend/hibernate...
For instance when I insert a USB, thunar shows it correctly, but when I try to display its content I get the message "Failed to mount KINGSTON not authorized"

To myself it is not obvious what I am missing. Please suggest me what relevant output I can produce to give useful information.
One piece of info I can give is that when I do ck-list-sessions on the desktop I get

m0p · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 205 Location: en_GB

You need to launch your desktop with something like this (replace the end with the session manager of whatever DE you use):

ad_meis · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 5:27 pm Post subject:

I tried this:

m0p · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 205 Location: en_GB

What's your output for this?

ad_meis · Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 7:36 am Post subject:

Thanks for your answer, I think that one I have set correctly, as it was part of the original checklist

InvisibleRasta · Apprentice Joined: 30 Mar 2011 Posts: 188

# ck-list-sessions
Session4:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat4'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ':0'
x11-display-device = '/dev/tty5'
display-device = '/dev/tty1'
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = FALSE
on-since = '2011-04-24T10:52:51.962155Z'
login-session-id = ''
Session1:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat1'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ''
x11-display-device = ''
display-device = '/dev/tty1'
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = TRUE
on-since = '2011-04-24T10:44:54.929673Z'
login-session-id = ''
idle-since-hint = '2011-04-24T10:53:20.332437Z'
after following this guide

|Quantum| · Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 1:14 pm Post subject:

FrancoisVal · Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 6:24 pm Post subject:

I have done everything listed in this howto for KDE and I have 3 very annoying problems:

1) The battery status is not shown. When I run solid-hardware query 'IS Battery'
, I get this:

Wolfbone · n00b Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 30

Is it just me or has the GNU/Linux box gradually turned into a buggy bloated nightmare of increasing complexity and undocumented incomprehensible unconfigurableness for others in recent years?

I just wanted to run X, a WM and a few apps, for pity's sake!

eehmke · n00b Joined: 11 Nov 2002 Posts: 13

After reading all this thread, and several more, still I cannot start KDE 4.6.2 without hal. The KDM login works, the KDE splash screen appears, but the last Icon (KDE) is never shown. The same happens when I run startx from the standard user shell. In this state nothing ever happens. I can log in to the tty. How to proceed?

ExecutorElassus · Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 9:18 pm Post subject:

Thanks for this guide. I finally got k3b working post-Hal.

<3

EE

FizzyWidget · Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:44 am Post subject:

Is this required if you use E17 or any of the other WM's?
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m0p · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 205 Location: en_GB

cwc · Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 1:23 am Post subject:

I could not find this flag on my system :

CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND=y

I take that back I finally found it and enabled it.

azzerare ~ # uname -a
Linux azzerare 2.6.38-gentoo-r6 #4 SMP Thu Jun 9 23:47:16 PDT 2011 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
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FizzyWidget · Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 8:35 am Post subject:

cwc · Last edited by cwc on Tue Jun 14, 2011 12:40 am; edited 1 time in total

I followed the guideline and this is what I got:
active = FALSE it should be active = TRUE

I'm not sure what to do here set active = TRUE

cwc@azzerare ~ $ ck-list-sessions
Session1:
unix-user = '1001'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat1'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ''
x11-display-device = ''
display-device = '/dev/tty1'
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = TRUE
on-since = '2011-06-12T21:03:29.828240Z'
login-session-id = '1'
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the_mgt · Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 4:19 pm Post subject:

That was easy............

Thanks a lot for this guide, I finally managed to get usb stick mounting again. Totally painless....

With HAL, I just put a user into the plugdev group and all was golden, now I have to dance naked in full moon and smear myself with menstruational blood from a 85year old virgin while juggling a dead chicken, a chainsaw and barrel full of ferrets...

Anyway, the important part was the removal of the pam nox11 entry, after relogging into my system, it all started working:

hal2050 · n00b Joined: 19 Jul 2008 Posts: 47

For those having problems with consolekit and qingy in regards to autologin, there's a patch on sourceforge for this issue. It finally fixed everything on my box.

Bugreport: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3170619&group_id=82854&atid=567417
Patch: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3314721&group_id=82854&atid=567419

cwc · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 11:36 am Post subject:

the_mgt · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:09 pm Post subject:

cwc · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:13 am Post subject:

cwc · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:57 pm Post subject: i finally got active = TRUE

logout
cwc@azzerare ~ $ ck-list-sessions
Session1:
unix-user = '1001'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat1'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ''
x11-display-device = ''
display-device = '/dev/tty1'
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = TRUE
on-since = '2011-06-15T07:21:40.748793Z'
login-session-id = '1'
idle-since-hint = '2011-06-15T07:22:16.160642Z'
Session2:
unix-user = '1001'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat1'
session-type = ''
active = TRUE
x11-display = ':0'
x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
display-device = '/dev/tty1'
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = TRUE
on-since = '2011-06-15T07:21:50.123362Z'
login-session-id = '1'

!! now i need to remove hal from my tree
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the_mgt · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 4:19 pm Post subject:

Epaminond · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2011 Posts: 5

I also had problems with mounting/unmounting. Solved by editing /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy file. (Changed "no" to "yes" in <allow_any></allow_any>). To bring back shutdown and reboot buttons I edied org.freedesktop.consolekit.policy.

But still can't get suspendand hibernate buttons. Tried to edit org.freedesktop.upower.policy, but it didn't help. Could you please give an advice to a newbie?

P.S. Followed all the instructions in the sticky.
P.P.S. Found an advise to add ck-launch-session to login_cmd line in /etc/slim.conf, but it didn't work. Actually it was suspected, because I have it in my ~/.xinitrc:

Epaminond · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2011 Posts: 5