Problems with mounting removable Devices

Patryk Zawadzki patrys at pld-linux.org
Thu Apr 23 07:05:35 PDT 2009


On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Dirk <noisyb at gmx.net> wrote:
> Daniel Spannbauer wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm working on a System running SuSE 10.2
>> On some machines I'm having problems to mount removable devices
>> (USB-Sticks, CD-ROMs) trough hal.
>> When I plug in a USB-STick I get a Windows on KDE which asks me if I
>> want to open a new Windows to display the Files on the stick. Wehn I
>> click jes I only get a message "A security policy in place prevents this
>> sender from sending this message to thi
>> s recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had
>> interface
>> "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member "Mount" error name "(unset)"
>> destinat
>> ion "org.freedesktop.Hal")"
>>
>> Can somebody help me to debug this?

I'd start by checking your PolicyKit (and/or ConsoleKit) installation.
Does your user have the necessary permissions to mount removable
volumes? What filesystem does your USB stick use?

> nope.. but you could just de-install hal if it's not a dependency...

Could you please uninstall yourself from this mailing list? Pretty,
pretty please ^_^

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Patryk Zawadzki


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