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Skywalker

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Registered: 2010-12-08

Posts: 9

No USB as normal user

Hello, all:
I'm new with Arch and cannot resolve this problem. As root  no problem with the pendrive I open with the filemanager, but as a normal user always this error: "DBus error org.gtk.Private.Remote Volume Monitor. Failed: An operation is already pending".
I use LXDE  with startx.
Thanks for yor help.

ctarwater

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Registered: 2009-02-05

Posts: 300

Re: No USB as normal user

See if my post in this thread helps: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 79#p870579

I use openbox and pcmanfm so it should work without problems with LXDE.

Last edited by ctarwater (2010-12-28 06:07:32)

Skywalker

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Registered: 2010-12-08

Posts: 9

Re: No USB as normal user

Thanks for your interest ctarwater:

Adding this line exactly and commenting "exec startlxde" arch opens a openbox desktop. I can work perfectly with my usb pendrive.
Adding this line changing openbox-session for lxde-session, arch is unable to charge an X session.
In my first post I forgott to say that another window error pop-up with "Not Authorized".

benko

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2010-12-28

Posts: 30

Re: No USB as normal user

check your user groups.. you need storage group to access your removable drives

Skywalker

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Registered: 2010-12-08

Posts: 9

Re: No USB as normal user

I belong as normal user at the following grups: lp, wheel, games, dbus, hal, video, audio, optical, floppy, storage, power, users.

ctarwater

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Registered: 2009-02-05

Posts: 300

Re: No USB as normal user

hm, the only other thing I could recommend is to try installing gvfs if you haven't yet and see if that helps.
Otherwise, check out udiskie:  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udiskie

Mr Green

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Registered: 2003-12-21

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Re: No USB as normal user

You maybe getting warning if you are not unmounting before removing pendrive.

use the command

mount

Will tell you if and where drive is mounted

lsusb

If not mounted will show if drive is connected

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Skywalker

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Registered: 2010-12-08

Posts: 9

Re: No USB as normal user

My lsusb

jordi@jordi ~]$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 054c:0243 Sony Corp. MicroVault Flash Drive
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1307:0330 Transcend Information, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
[jordi@jordi ~]$

mount as normal user

[jordi@jordi ~]$ mount
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=218451,mode=755)
/dev/disk/by-uuid/6a00e298-d461-412b-96a7-e401b15fd902 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/jordi/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=jordi)
[jordi@jordi ~]$

mount as a root

[root@jordi jordi]# mount
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=218451,mode=755)
/dev/disk/by-uuid/6a00e298-d461-412b-96a7-e401b15fd902 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /root/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/sdf1 on /media/0065-0022 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=0,gid=0,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush)
[root@jordi jordi]#

Mr Green

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From: U.K.

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Re: No USB as normal user

Sounds like a problem with pcmanfm, maybe try udisks or pmount until you can figure out problem

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