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stoa
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 Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 5:19 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] XFCE Permissions and Suspend Questions |
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Hi everyone:
I just completed my first Gentoo install a couple of weeks ago and am having a few small issues with XFCE.
First, I can only intermittantly autmount USB flash drives; even when they show up in filemanager, I cannot access them. The error I receive is "Permission Denied." I do have udisks installed and I have enabled hotplugging in the XFCE settings manager. I can mount usb drives in the shell as root using udisks (at least I was able to - I haven't checked in about a week.)
Second, I am missing the ability to suspend or swith user - the icons are grey-ed out. This post https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-835178-start-0.html dealt with both issues, but the post is over 3 1/2 years old and concerns HAL, in part.
Please let me know what further information you need and I look forward to any suggestions that may help. Thanks.
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Logicien
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| Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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Hello,
If you start Xorg via a display manager (Xdm, Kdm, Gdm, Lxdm, etc) in principle they take in charge of starting a ConsoleKit session for the user. An active Consolekit session allow to suspend, change user, etc.
If you start Xorg with the startx command, you may need to start Xfce with ConsoleKit in your ~/.xinitrc like this
| Code: | | exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session startxfce4 |
You can check anytime the list of ConsoleKit sessions open with the command
A consoleKit session should resolv your issues at least for suspend.
Access the blocks devices for a non root user may depend on the disk group he have to be in. Some USE flags like dbus, gvfs, udev and udisks may change the behavior of Thunar. Dbus is not only a bus, it's a buss, it decide a lot of what a user can access in an X session.
You can allow a non root user to mount and unmount filesystems in /etc/fstab too.
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stoa
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| Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Logicien, thanks for the reply. I had initially set up ConsoleKit when installing the OS, but it was throwing errors on boot so I disabled it. I'm not sure the kernel configuration is correct - I'll have to check. The output from ck-list-sessions was
| Code: | ck-list-sessions
** Message: Failed to connect to the D-Bus daemon: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory |
I do have the udev, gvfs, X, dbus, and udisks USE flags set.
Even though the ConsoleKit wiki claims it is for multi-user set-ups (which, unless you count root, this is a single-user machine), it also claims it won't hurt on a single-user. So, I'll dig into the kernel config and make sure its set for auditing and re-enable ConsoleKit.
I really don't want to get into adding to /etc/fstab, although I've had to do that before and it does work, but not well. Usually (I use xfce on four different distros) gvfs does the trick.
Thanks again. |
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stoa
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| Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 2:11 am Post subject: |
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Logicien:
The solution was a combination of d-bus, which gave automount to usb and other drives, and ConsoleKit which gave the permissions to enter them and also enabled suspend.
For the benefit of others who may have this problem, my ck-list-sessions is now:
| Code: | gentoo ~ # ck-list-sessions
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 = '2013-12-24T01:53:48.778638Z'
login-session-id = '2'
idle-since-hint = '2013-12-24T01:54:22.190996Z'
Session2:
unix-user = '1000'
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 = '2013-12-24T01:53:56.644412Z'
login-session-id = '2'
gentoo ~ # |
I'm back to getting the errors scrolling by at boot re: ConsoleKit, but it's working.
Thanks much for your help, and I'll mark this as solved. |
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