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dh923

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From: canada (west)

Registered: 2010-06-16

Posts: 2

trouble unmounting removeable drives

after being unable to unmount my flash drives with this error

org.freedesktop.hal.storage.unmount-others no <-- (privilege, result)

i found an easy way to fix it;

make a file

# touch /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/desktop.storage.policy.pkla

put this in your new file

[Desktop Removable Storage Permissions]
Identity=unix-group: storage
Action=org.freedesktop.hal.storage.*
ResultAny=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultAction=Yes

logout, login.

heres the link to the origional article http://jasonslinuxjournal.blogspot.com/ … ophal.html

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: trouble unmounting removeable drives

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Map … _with_udev
We use udev how, not HAL, but thanks anyway.