Multiseat & DVD - permission denied

Jason Long jlong at messiah.edu
Mon Sep 17 13:01:52 UTC 2007


I have a "Multi-Seat" system setup at home on Fedora 7. I use X's evdev
input driver and the -sharevts -novtswitch options for X.

I've found that after enabling Multi-Seat, I cannot play DVDs, on either
terminal. When I insert the DVD, I get the following error message:

Cannot mount volume. Error org.freedesktop.Hal.PermissionDenied.
Details
Permission denied: Not in active session


I thought this might be an issue with ConsoleKit. ck-list-sessions reports
the session is not active. I tried disabling ConsoleKit (chkconfig
ConsoleKit off), and rebooting, but I still get the same error when I insert
the DVD.


I understand that ConsoleKit doesn't really support MultiSeat yet, so maybe
I'm just stuck.

But maybe, is there a way to configure HAL to allow all users access to the
DVD?

Jason




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