Please describe the problem:
My gnome-volume-manager was exiting during startup without any apparent reason.
Debugging showed nothing. But with strace I've found:

30024 access("/var/run/console/zdzichu", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)

there is no such file on Slackware system. After changing gvm_user_at_console()
to always return TRUE, GVM initializes and runs as daemon.

So this check has to be either reworked or made optional. Also, I suggest
someting along

--- manager.c       2006-03-01 21:49:51.000000000 +0100
+++ manager.c.2 2006-03-01 21:51:52.000000000 +0100
@@ -3020,8 +3020,11 @@
                gnome_client_set_restart_style (client, GNOME_RESTART_ANYWAY);
        } else {
                gnome_client_set_restart_style (client, GNOME_RESTART_NEVER);
-               if (gvm_user_at_console ())
+               if (gvm_user_at_console ()) {
                        warn ("already running");
+               } else {
+                       warn ("user at console check failed");
+               }

                return 1;
        }

to make debugging easier.

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Does this happen every time?


Other information:
gnome-volume-manager-1.5.14