[Bug 218494] Re: Default policykit configuration does not play nicely with multiseat configurations, resulting in failure to mount usb devices (pen drives)

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** Project changed: hal => consolekit

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #651509
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651509

** Also affects: consolekit (Debian) via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651509
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

** Summary changed:

- Default policykit configuration does not play nicely with multiseat configurations, resulting in failure to mount usb devices (pen drives)
+ ConsoleKit does not play nicely with multiseat configurations, resulting in failure to mount usb devices (pen drives)

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Title:
  ConsoleKit does not play nicely with multiseat configurations,
  resulting in failure to mount usb devices (pen drives)

Status in ConsoleKit:
  Confirmed
Status in “consolekit” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “consolekit” package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: hal

  This is a machine that was upgraded (six months ago) from 7.04 to 7.10
  and not to 8.04 beta.

  When I plug in an USB device hal doesn't mount it. This happens with more than one device (tried
  U3 MP3 player and a small card reader). The same devices work well in my laptop that is also running hardy.

  Looking at the output of hald --daemon=no I get something like:

          using action org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable for uid 1000, system_bus_connection :1.123
          pid 8027: rc=1 signaled=0: /usr/lib/hal/hal-storage-mount
          Run started hald-probe-storage (10000) (0) 
          !  full path is '/usr/lib/hal/hald-probe-storage', program_dir is '/usr/lib/hal'
          woohoo
          pid 8034: rc=2 signaled=0: /usr/lib/hal/hald-probe-storage

  In the laptop where everything works, I can see some extra lines just
  after the first above that says:

          passed privilege
          3563: XYA creating /media/.hal-mtab~
          3563: XYA closing /media/.hal-mtab~
          3563: XYA done renaming /media/.hal-mtab~ /media/.hal-mtab
          3563: XYA released lock on /media/.hal-mtab-lock

  I will attach the files described in
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingRemovableDevices, maybe they can
  help.

  The output of the id commands are:

  pjssilva at leia:~$ id
  uid=1000(pjssilva) gid=1000(pjssilva) grupos=4(adm),7(lp),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),100(users),104(lpadmin),105(scanner),106(admin),113(fuse),124(pulse),125(vboxusers),1000(pjssilva)
  pjssilva at leia:~$ id hal
  id: hal: Usuário inexistente
  pjssilva at leia:~$ id haldaemon
  uid=110(haldaemon) gid=110(haldaemon) grupos=110(haldaemon),24(cdrom),25(floppy),46(plugdev),121(powerdev)
  pjssilva at leia:~$ uname -a
  Linux leia 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

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