udisks !hal automounting

[darkphader]

Finally can automount (and eject) with gnome-2.30 without HAL, using udisks but had to apply this patch: http://realcomputerguy.com/gentoo/ to org.freedesktop.udisks.policy which IMO shouldn't be needed as the "allow_active" being set to yes should be sufficient. It appears that udisks does not know who the active users is. The patch simply changes no to yes for "allow_any" in the mount and eject sections.

How to pass the active user to udisks, so that the patch is unnecessary?

Thanks,

Chris

[VoidMage]

Not that I'm sure, but does udisks handle that via consolekit ?

[darkphader]

Not that I'm sure, but does udisks handle that via consolekit ?

Really don't know, although I do have consolekit running.

[M]

I think your session must be started with ck-launch-session, like for example
exec ck-launch-session openbox-session
or gnome, whatever... Try adding that to your session in /etc/X11/Sessions

I read somewhere about some command that you can use to check if your user/session have access to consolekit but I can't remember where and which command it is...

[darkphader]

I use 'startx' from the console to bring up gnome.
But my session is listed as active:

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$ ck-list-sessions 
Session1:
	unix-user = '1000'
	realname = 'Chris Smith'
	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 = '2010-06-11T02:33:41.471810Z'
	login-session-id = ''
	idle-since-hint = '2010-06-11T03:14:21.300622Z'

[darkphader]

I think your session must be started with ck-launch-session, like for example
exec ck-launch-session openbox-session
or gnome, whatever... Try adding that to your session in /etc/X11/Sessions

OK, that helped a bit. Adding it to /etc/X11/Session/Gnome didn't help but I may have done that wrong as I simply replaced

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exec $command

with

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exec ck-launch-session $command

It didn't work at first by using .xinitrc with

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exec ck-launch-session "gnome-session"

but that turned to be a need to have the console-kit-daemon running before entering startx - even though the daemon will get started upon starting X it doesn't get started soon enough to work properly. So simply adding it to the default run level simplifies that issue.

Two issues remain:
There must be a way to properly use it with /etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome (and other sessions).
and
If I plug in a flashkey with multiple partitions then "Safely Remove Drive" chokes with:

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Unable to stop drive

Error detaching: helper exited with exit code 1: Detaching device /dev/sde
USB device: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-6)
SYNCHRONIZE CACHE: FAILED: No such file or directory
(Continuing despite SYNCHRONIZE CACHE failure.)
STOP UNIT: OK
Unbinding USB interface driver: OK
Suspending USB device: FAILED: Cannot open /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-6/power/level for writing: No such file or directory

I am guessing that it is due to having more than one partition, I may repartition the flash drive later to test the standard circumstance.

Thanks,

Chris

[darkphader]

Haha - when I start Gnome with an ~/.xinitrc containing

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exec ck-launch-session "gnome-session"

automounting works but my Applications menu is blank :)

[darkphader]

So back to ground zero - no automounting or no applications menu, but the crazy thing is that Gnome appears to be properly launched

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ps ax | grep Gnome
 3143 tty1     S      0:00 /usr/bin/ck-launch-session /etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome

without using a custom ~/.xinitrc.

[darkphader]

Just adding that automounting works when I use gdm. Why doesn't it work without it?

[red-wolf76]

Maybe gdm initializes ck correctly? It is the preferred way (in the GNOME mindset) to run GNOME after all...

[gglaboussole]

hi darkphader,
I' have exacty the same problem but I still use hal (My player is banshee and it depends on hal)...

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Error detaching: helper exited with exit code 1: Detaching device /dev/sdc
USB device: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-1)
SYNCHRONIZE CACHE: OK
STOP UNIT: OK
Unbinding USB interface driver: OK
Suspending USB device: FAILED: Cannot open /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-1/power/level for writing: No such file or directory

So is it a bug ?

[netfab]

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Error detaching: helper exited with exit code 1: Detaching device /dev/sdc
USB device: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-1)
SYNCHRONIZE CACHE: OK
STOP UNIT: OK
Unbinding USB interface driver: OK
Suspending USB device: FAILED: Cannot open /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-1/power/level for writing: No such file or directory

So is it a bug ?

Bump. I hit this bug today. You must probably rebuild your kernel with CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME and CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND.

[darkphader]

Bump. I hit this bug today. You must probably rebuild your kernel with CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME and CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND.

I'll try that.

[gglaboussole]

For me that's solved the problem
Merci netfab

[Shocker580]

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Error detaching: helper exited with exit code 1: Detaching device /dev/sdc
USB device: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-1)
SYNCHRONIZE CACHE: OK
STOP UNIT: OK
Unbinding USB interface driver: OK
Suspending USB device: FAILED: Cannot open /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-1/power/level for writing: No such file or directory

So is it a bug ?

Bump. I hit this bug today. You must probably rebuild your kernel with CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME and CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND.

I'have the same problem but in .config(uration) kernel i don't find CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND option for enable. Where is it ?

2.6.37

[swimmer]

As said above you also have to enable CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME - you can find that under "Power management and ACPI options -> Run-time PM core functionality"

After that you'll find "USB runtime power management (autosuspend) and wakeup" under "Device Drivers -> USB Support" ...

HTH
swimmer

[Anon-E-moose]

Haha - when I start Gnome with an ~/.xinitrc containing

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exec ck-launch-session "gnome-session"

automounting works but my Applications menu is blank

to fix the app menu problem
try adding

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XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"
XDG_MENU_PREFIX="gnome-"
export XDG_MENU_PREFIX XDG_CONFIG_HOME

to .xinitrc before the "exec" line

[darkphader]

to fix the app menu problem

Actually it finally started working. Must have been fixed in an upgrade.