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you have a ~/.xinitrc, startx won't read /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ,
which means /etc/X11/Xsession isn't imported into xinit, which leads
to no consolekit session being created/maintained among some daemons,
dbus listeners .. bla bla ..

Adding a '. /etc/X11/Xsession' in the beginning of my ~/.xinitrc
solved that, now ck-list-sessions list two sessions, one inactive (the
window which I've typed startx) and one active (my X .. ).

After making sure I have now an active session, trying to access my
NTFS partitions on nautilus simply works as before, so automount works
nicely.

I hope this helps other people having the same issue.

Cheers,

Theo