USB mount with multiple users broken (hal and consolekit)

["Jussi Nurminen" <jnu@iki.fi>]

Hi,
I'm having trouble with automounting of removable devices, when
multiple users are logged in via GDM. This is with Debian Lenny.
If I do tail -f /var/syslog, and then attach an USB stick, I get a
message like this:

Nov 25 17:56:02 myws hald: mounted /dev/sde1 on behalf of uid 1000

which is nice. However, when I do this repeatedly with multiple users
logged in, the UID keeps on changing randomly. Sometimes it's the UID
who is logged of the active X session, sometimes not. Of course, this
makes the USB stick unusable, unless you get happen to get lucky with
the UID lottery.

Now, I thought consolekit was supposed to resolve this by letting hal
know about the active session, but apparently it still does not work.
Is everybody else having the same problem? It's a pain for our lab
with multiple-user workstations.

Versions of relevant packages:

ii  consolekit              0.2.10-2                framework for
defining and tracking users, sessions and seats
ii  hal                     0.5.11-6                Hardware Abstraction Layer

yours,
Jussi