gnome-volume-manager doesn't run

[Sean Middleditch]

Binary package hint: gnome-volume-manager

The gnome-volume-manager daemon won't run. If I manually run the command, the process starts and immediately exits. It is *not* crashing; it's calling exit_group(0) [as found by strace].

I haven't been able to find any configuration file or other reason why gnome-volume-manager would essentially be disabling itself like this.

[Matt Mossholder (matt-mossholder)]

I had this problem as well. gnome-volume-manager is exiting because it does not see a filename /var/run/console/$USER:<virtual terminal#>

This is supposed to indicate that the user owns the console. G-V-M is testing for the existance of the file, so that on multi-user systems, G-V-M only runs for the user who owns the console.

My solution was to include "auth required pam_foreground.so" in /etc/pam.d/gdm.

[Sean Middleditch (elanthis)]

Hmm, that should be a session module, not an auth module. I checked the differences between my machine at work and the machine with problems at home (both running Dapper) and the machine at home was indeed missing the pam_foreground settings. This is probably because of changes I made to enable Kerberos. Hence, this bug is invalid, and can be closed.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Closing as duplicate.