Using rawhide and gdm-2.26.1-13.fc12.i586 when I do a ck-list-sessions I see Session4: unix-user = '500' realname = 'darrell pfeifer' seat = 'Seat5' session-type = '' active = FALSE x11-display = ':0' x11-display-device = '' display-device = '' remote-host-name = '' is-local = TRUE on-since = '2009-07-06T15:56:08.908744Z' login-session-id = ''
Currently almost all my device-related functionality is not working (including pulseaudio, mounting usb sticks, starting virtual machines). In addition, polkit-gnome-authorization and polkit-gnome-authorization are crashing.
Am I on the right track thinking that the problem is gdm related?
darrell
On Mon, 06.07.09 09:54, darrell pfeifer (darrellpf@gmail.com) wrote:
Using rawhide and gdm-2.26.1-13.fc12.i586 when I do a ck-list-sessions I see Session4: unix-user = '500' realname = 'darrell pfeifer' seat = 'Seat5' session-type = '' active = FALSE x11-display = ':0' x11-display-device = '' display-device = '' remote-host-name = '' is-local = TRUE on-since = '2009-07-06T15:56:08.908744Z' login-session-id = ''
Currently almost all my device-related functionality is not working (including pulseaudio, mounting usb sticks, starting virtual machines). In addition, polkit-gnome-authorization and polkit-gnome-authorization are crashing.
Am I on the right track thinking that the problem is gdm related?
We are currently in the process of moving the device ACL management from HAL to udev. This is not finished yet, at least for the PA case I know that that there is some work left to do to fix udev/ck to make things completely race-free.
A temporary work-around for the PA case is to make yourself a member of the "audio" group which then gives you device access regardless if ACLs are set up and work correctly. This will break audio if you have multiple simultaneous session of different users.
Lennart