Bypass "Daemon is inhibited"

Question

When GParted is open, I cannot use the GUI to mount, unmount, or do other operations to partitions. The GUI (includes GNOME, KDE, and Xfce) complains that the "daemon is inhibited".

However, if I use the terminal, I can do all those operations normally as if GParted was not open.

My question is how can I disable or circumvent the restrictions that GParted places on the GUI? As a desktop user, this was confusing at first and not desirable.

Solution

Run this command each time a process prevents other programs from controlling devices:

sudo killall udisks

You can now manage devices with your user-level interface while having GParted open.

Note: This only has a one-time effect and does not prevent the udisks --inhibit from locking again.

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root is the only user that can inhibit all polling. This is a security measure so that while the super user is working with dangerous tools like GParted, a normal user cannot mess things up between refresh intervals of such tools.

^{_{Source: udisks Reference Manual}}

Comments

[Deltik]

Finally accepted this solution. It works well, but if anyone else has a better way, post it as an answer, and I'll accept it.