Not Authorized (can't mount USB flash drive as normal user)

[Christoph Wickert]

Hi Steven,

first of all a big thanks for testing the LXDE spin so carefully.

Am Freitag, den 13.08.2010, 12:38 -0700 schrieb Steven I Usdansky:
> LXDE spin alpha RC4 x86_64.

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> Boot into runlevel 3 as normal user
> Run startx to start an LXDE session
> Plug in USB flash drive - file manager appears
> Click on flash drive's entry to mount
> Error dialog appears with msg: Not Authorized
> 
> How to fix?

You need to open a console-kit session for your user. You can do this by
calling ck-launch-session. Please try changing /etc/sysconfig/desktop
from

PREFERRED=/usr/bin/startlxde

to

PREFERRED="ck-launch-session /usr/bin/startlxde"

and tell me if it works. Unfortunately there is no documentation on
ConsoleKit available ATM, so 

I have to admit that this case was not tested and I'm afraid other
desktops might have the same problem.

Regards,
Christoph

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