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 <[email protected]>
> 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 :)
>
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Jian Li