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Description of problem: When trying to mount e.g. a cd-rom/usb stick etc. "Not Authorized" message is displayed and the media is not mounted. Worked fine in f16 before upgrading to rawhide last weekend. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kdm-4.7.97-1.fc17.x86_64 kdebase-workspace-4.7.97-1.fc17.x86_64 polkit-kde-0.99.0-3.fc17.x86_64 polkit-0.104-2.fc17.x86_64 ConsoleKit-0.4.5-1.fc15.x86_64 kernel-3.2.0-2.fc17.x86_64 glibc-2.15-1.fc17.x86_64 ck-list-sessions Session1: unix-user = '1000' realname = 'Andreas Bierfert' seat = 'Seat1' session-type = '' active = TRUE x11-display = ':0' x11-display-device = '/dev/tty1' display-device = '' remote-host-name = '' is-local = TRUE on-since = '2012-01-11T08:05:53.440754Z' login-session-id = '4294967295'
Looks like a polkit problem...
pinging polkit folks for advice, comment. I recall seeing a recent blog about adding systemd session handling. Do DE's need to adapt to that, or is the polkit/consolekit functionality expected to continue to work as before.
(In reply to comment #2) > pinging polkit folks for advice, comment. I recall seeing a recent blog about > adding systemd session handling. Do DE's need to adapt to that, or is the > polkit/consolekit functionality expected to continue to work as before. Nope, no changes are required on the desktop side for this.
Is this related to the demise of polkit-desktop-policy?
Hard to say. Better feedback / error messages from the reporter would be helpful. Would also be helpful to try to check with pkcheck(1) and manually running "/usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd -r" from a root shell and paste the debug output
Hm, something from todays upgrade seems to fix this issue for me. I did a couple of reboots after the upgrade to make sure the behavior is consistent. Other polkit related things now seem to work again as well (VirtualBox related stuff). I will attach the transaction log. A quick downgrade of systemd (which I would have suspected) did not bring back the original bug. I will close and reopen if it comes up again.
Created attachment 552174 [details] yum log
The polkit upgrade to 0.104 or later definitely needs a reboot or at the very least a restart of the polkit authentication agent (e.g. restart your desktop session). Maybe that's why you ran into problems.