Bug 511256

Summary: F11: DeviceKit error for second user when first user mounts CD or USB thumb drive
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: dedded <dedded>
Component: DeviceKit-disksAssignee: David Zeuthen <davidz>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 11CC: davidz, mclasen
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Description dedded 2009-07-14 13:16:44 UTC
Description of problem:

User Bob logs in.  Then switch user is called and user Sue logs in.  Then switch user is called again and Bob logs in again.  Bob now mounts a CD (or a USB thumb drive), everything works fine.  Bob ejects the CD.  Then switch user to Sue.  Sue now sees an error dialog box with this message:

Unable to mount <label-of-CD>
org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.Error.NotAuthorized:
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount no  [rest is truncated]


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

DeviceKit-disks-004-3.fc11.x86_64

How reproducible:

See above. 

Expected Results:

I don't expect to see the error message.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2010-04-27 15:40:02 UTC
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Comment 2 dedded 2010-04-27 23:06:53 UTC
F11 is the most recent Fedora that I have installed, so I can't comment on whether or not the bug has since been fixed.

I also don't understand why the priority of this bug was ever marked low.  (Unless it is somehow hardware specific and most people aren't affected.)  This bug made F11 untenable for me (had to switch distros).  This machine is the primary computer for our family, all of whom have cameras with memory cards.  Naturally, we hit "switch-user" all the time, and frequently have a card to mount in one of those USB card readers.  This just didn't work with F11.

You won't encounter this bug on a system only used by one user, or if only one user mounts USB sticks and cards.  But you hit it all the time on a regular family computer.

Unless this is a rare, hardware-specific, issue, and unless it has already been solved, I would recommend that it be fixed.

Comment 3 dedded 2010-04-27 23:10:26 UTC
Sorry, I just conflated this with bug #511258, to which the above comment should actually apply.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 13:37:14 UTC
Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is 
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