I don't know how to solve this, but I hope the following messages may help you.
>>> Messages generated by process 14982 on 2010-10-18 23:54:00 CST for package sys-auth/polkit-0.96-r1: WARN: postinst If you don't use GDM or KDM for logging in, you must start your desktop environment (DE) as follows: ck-launch-session $STARTGUI Where $STARTGUI is a DE-starting command such as 'gnome-session'. You should add this to your ~/.xinitrc if you use startx. End. 2010/11/6 walt <w41...@gmail.com> > When I turned on the consolekit useflag, all the nice auto-mounting stuff > in > gnome stopped working. > > The cause seems to be that when I'm using X, I'm listed by ck-list-sessions > as both non-active and non-local, so I can't mount e.g. a usb stick unless > I switch to a virtual console where I'm recognized as both local and > active. > > I don't know if this is a bug or a feature, or maybe I need to reconfigure > something. > > Any opinions on how consolekit should handle this fairly common scenario? > > I can fix my problem by turning off the consolekit useflag, of course, but > I'd rather learn something :) > > > > > -- Jian Li