[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2011-02-03 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: consolekit Importance: Unknown => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478274 Title: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic -- ubuntu

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2011-01-25 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: consolekit Importance: Medium => Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478274 Title: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic -- ubuntu

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2010-05-05 Thread Bas Doodeman
@Paul Gear & JorgeHPM Could it be that you are seeing this bug instead (535521)? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/consolekit/+bug/535521 -- cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478274 You received this bug notification beca

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2010-04-15 Thread JorgeHPM
I also have the same problem, checked everything as stated here: a) Don't have SVN and .svn folder b) Have custom.conf as stated here My box info (let me know if I have to add something) Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description:Ubuntu 9.10 Release:9.10 Codename: karmic Linux 2.6.31-21-g

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2010-04-03 Thread Paul Gear
A couple of comments: 1. The behaviour is not consistent on different systems: this affects my wife's PC (and annoys her no end), but doesn't affect mine. Both are karmic, upgraded step by step from hardy, but mine is amd64 and hers is x86. 2. Surely this can't be low priority. If it stops a US

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2010-02-17 Thread Gavin Carothers
Same issues as above. Unable to mount (NTFS, USB, etc) and unable to use Users/Groups. Have a file /etc/gdm/custom.conf Session info: Session4: unix-user = '1000' realname = 'Gavin Carothers' seat = 'Seat1' session-type = '' active = FALSE x11-displ

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2010-02-02 Thread gglaser
Brian, Ciaran, It seems that I am having the same issue with not being able to access my USB peripherals or change the Users/Groups. I also do not have the file /etc/gdm/custom.conf. Unfortunately I don't have another install of Karmic to copy from. Can you tell me what was in this file that is

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2010-01-29 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: consolekit Status: Unknown => Fix Released -- cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478274 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bug

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2010-01-29 Thread Chris Coulson
** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #26005 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26005 ** Changed in: consolekit Status: Invalid => Unknown ** Changed in: consolekit Remote watch: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #25097 => freedesktop.org Bugzilla #26005 -- cannot mount usb

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2010-01-29 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: consolekit Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478274 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs m

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2010-01-05 Thread mrg666
I am running Ubuntu 9.10-x86 Karmic and all of the administrator options are disabled in the Gnome administration utilities (users and groups, time and date, etc.) with a gray button stating "Not authorized to make changes". I have edited the file as Chris suggested in post #17 and the only suspici

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-12-30 Thread ciaran.mooney
Hi, I had the same problem. Brian Burch's suggestion worked. Just to confirm the "workaround". CiarĂ¡n -- cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478274 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which i

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-12-01 Thread Brian Burch
I apologise for not opening a new bug, but I think my observations of a clean karmic install would be helpful because I had the same symptoms - both usb memory stick and greyed-out admin-users authenticate. Following this particular bug helped me because I found a different entry in /var/log/daemon

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-11-26 Thread a.rossingtonwatson
I can confirm SVN was causing this issue on my box. Only needed it for one thing so removed all traces of SVN from my machine using Synaptic and the issue went away. Using Karmic. -- cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478274 You rec

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-11-17 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: consolekit Status: Unknown => Confirmed -- cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478274 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs m

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-11-16 Thread Chris Coulson
** Also affects: consolekit via https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25097 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: consolekit (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic https://bugs.launchpad

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-11-15 Thread David Decotigny
FYI, Filed bug report https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25097 ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #25097 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25097 -- cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478274 You rec

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-11-15 Thread David Decotigny
Reopening this issue. I am afraid there is a real problem here... As I understand by looking at the code (mainly ck-manager.c:load_seats_from_dir()), the fact that there is an invalid regular file in /etc/ConsoleKit/seats.d/ has only the following impacts: - the first correct seat created will

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-11-15 Thread David Decotigny
Chris: sorry, we changed the status in parellel with my former comment. Restoring to "Confirmed" as you set it. ** Changed in: consolekit (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Confirmed -- cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478274

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-11-15 Thread Chris Coulson
Thanks. I'll keep this open for now, as consolekit probably shouldn't fall apart when /etc is controlled under SVN. ** Changed in: consolekit (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Confirmed -- cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/4

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-11-15 Thread David Decotigny
Bingo ! Thank you very much Chris ! You were right: it was a local configuration issue. But I'd say consolekit seems overly sensitive and I'm not sure its behavior is really legitimate. Here is what /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --debug tells me (in /var/log/daemon.log): Nov 15 10:50:07 xyz conso

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-11-14 Thread Chris Coulson
That looks normal. Could you please edit the "Exec=" line in /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.service to read "/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --debug", then restart, log in and attach your /var/log/syslog? Thanks -- cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgr

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-11-14 Thread David Decotigny
Thanks for the feedback. Here is the contents of /etc/ConsoleKit/seats.d/00-primary.seat: -- [Seat Entry] Version=1.0 Name=Primary seat Hidden=false Devices= -- Is there anything wrong with it ? -- cannot mount usb v

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-11-14 Thread Chris Coulson
The fact that Consolekit is adding your sessions to dynamic seats seems to be wrong (they should all be on Seat1). The only thing I can think of that would cause this would be /etc/ConsoleKit/seats.d/00-primary.seat being missing. Could you please post the contents of that file ** Changed in: poli

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-11-14 Thread David Decotigny
Bug seems to lie somewhere between consolekit and policykit. It is apparently not related to gdm (happens with console logins as well). ** Changed in: policykit-1 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic https://bugs.launchp

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-11-14 Thread David Decotigny
Some info relevant to my problem: see issue #363568 I looked at the consolekit sources and it appears that the only flags that are set are: res = ck_connector_open_session_with_parameters (ckc, &error,

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-11-14 Thread David Decotigny
Digging somewhat more, it appears that none of the seats allow to activate sessions (CanActivateSession) except one. The strange thing is that that one seat doesn't contain any session. The other strange thing is that none of the seats are associated with any device (GetDevices). Anyway, here is w

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-11-14 Thread David Decotigny
Well, the "dbus" trick didn't make it either. I tried with the following script: --- import dbus, traceback bus = dbus.SystemBus() mgr = bus.get_object('org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit', '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager') for seat_name

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-11-14 Thread David Decotigny
Just FYI... I tried to force /usr/bin/ck-launch-session to run in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90consolekit because it was not enabled at STARTUP as XDG_SESSION_COOKIE is defined. This doesn't make things better: it just created another parallel inactive session. Both sessions were still marked "active = FA

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-11-12 Thread David Decotigny
If it can help, here is what /var/log/ConsoleKit/history tells me since I last rebooted: 1258028674.109 type=SEAT_ADDED : seat-id='Seat2' seat-kind=0 1258028721.681 type=SEAT_ADDED : seat-id='Seat3' seat-kind=1 1258028721.931 type=SEAT_SESSION_ADDED : seat-id='Seat3' session-id='Session1' session

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-11-12 Thread David Decotigny
Well, I just chose my login name from the gdm login screen, typed my password and that's it. I'm physically on the machine. How is that 'active' flag determined ? -- cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478274 You received this bug no

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-11-12 Thread Chris Coulson
You aren't on the active console, so policykit is actually doing the correct thing here. How are you logging in? -- cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478274 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-11-12 Thread David Decotigny
Some further information coming from the beginning of my ~/.xsession-errors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2658): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `_PolkitError' (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2658): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-11-12 Thread David Decotigny
Thank you for your support. The following is the output from ck-list-sessions: Session2: unix-user = '1000' realname = 'david' seat = 'Seat4' session-type = '' active = FALSE x11-display = ':0' x11-display-device =

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic

2009-11-08 Thread Chris Coulson
Thank you for your bug report. Please post the output of "ck-list- sessions" from the session that you're having issues with. This is most likely a local config issue rather than a bug. All the symptoms described point to you not being on the local active console, and therefore, Policykit is actua

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized"

2009-11-08 Thread David Decotigny
mark it related to policykit ** Package changed: yelp (Ubuntu) => policykit (Ubuntu) ** Summary changed: - cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized" + cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic -- cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic htt

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized"

2009-11-08 Thread David Decotigny
Well, I used 'yelp' to file this bug report, so this bug report appears related to yelp. Of course it doesn't have anything to do with yelp. IMHO, it's probably more related to devkit pour policykit. -- cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized", after upgrade to Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 478274] Re: cannot mount usb volumes: "Not authorized"

2009-11-08 Thread David Decotigny
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35362079/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35362080/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35362081/ProcStatus.txt -- cannot