not using gdm does not create a ConsoleKit session

Thanks for your report, is that reproducible with another new user created on your system?

yes, it is.

Sounds like hal is not running? Does it work after

 sudo /etc/init.d/hal start

?

hal is running.

$ ps ax |grep hal
 3308 ? Ss 0:05 /usr/sbin/hald
 3373 ? S 0:00 hald-runner
 3388 ? S 0:00 hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event3 /dev/input/event5 /dev/input/event0 /dev/input/event1 /dev/input/event2
 3397 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-cpufreq
 3398 ? S 0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket
 3411 ? S 0:02 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/scd0 (every 16 sec)
24841 pts/6 R+ 0:00 grep hal

$ ps ax |grep dbus
 3276 ? Ss 0:03 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
 4075 ? Ss 0:00 dbus-daemon --fork --print-address 16 --print-pid 18 --session
24848 pts/6 R+ 0:00 grep dbus

I found that problem is in function gvm_console_kit_seat_get_sessions.

do {
                if (dbus_message_iter_get_arg_type (&elem) == DBUS_TYPE_OBJECT_PATH) {
                        dbus_message_iter_get_basic (&elem, &path);
                        g_ptr_array_add (sessions, g_strdup (path));
                }
} while (dbus_message_iter_next (&elem));

this iteration is done but the condition in the if statement never holds.

the problem will be probably in console kit or something as ck-list-sessions does not show any session.

I do not use gdm so consolekit did not show any session. I installed libpam-ck-connector and now the gnome-volume-manager starts.

However, it used to work even without libpam-ck-connector in edgy. I wonder why it does not work in hardy.

Which login manager do you use? The bug should be assigned to that one, and that login manager should create a ConsoleKit session.

Just plain text oldschool login.

So you are trying to use g-v-m in a text mode console? Hmm.

If you want to do that, please install libpam-ck-connector.

Also, g-v-m in hardy is not actually used to do automounting any more, that moved to nautilus. So we won't change this in Ubuntu any more.