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I run LXDE and when I plug in any usb storage device (flash drive, portable hard drive) I can see the device in PCMan but I cannot mount it. I get an error box with no message when I try to click on the device icon. I am in the hal group and I have pmount installed.
I am also unable to mount cdroms, and audio CD's do not even appear in PCMan. I do not know if this is the same problem, but it seems to be very similar.
Last edited by danrg7 (2009-01-06 05:24:56)
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Are you a member of storage and optical?
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Also make sure you are added to the mount group
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Group mount?? That is new to me
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Also make sure you are added to the mount group
Unless you created it yourself, I'm pretty sure there is no such thing.
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Also, make sure hal, pam and fam are loaded in the daemons section of your /etc/rc.conf
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Also, make sure hal, pam and fam are loaded in the daemons section of your /etc/rc.conf
pam??
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cdwillis wrote:Also make sure you are added to the mount group
Unless you created it yourself, I'm pretty sure there is no such thing.
I suppose not
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I run LXDE and when I plug in any usb storage device (flash drive, portable hard drive) I can see the device in PCMan but I cannot mount it. I get an error box with no message when I try to click on the device icon. I am in the hal group and I have pmount installed.
I am also unable to mount cdroms, and audio CD's do not even appear in PCMan. I do not know if this is the same problem, but it seems to be very similar.
Welcome to the forums.
It would be helpful if you post the error message.
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It would be helpful if you post the error message.
I get an error box with no message
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skottish wrote:It would be helpful if you post the error message.
danrg7 wrote:I get an error box with no message
Doh!
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Are you using testing, then downgrading hal/dbus to extra version may help. I had the same problem.
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Are you using testing, then downgrading hal/dbus to extra version may help. I had the same problem.
I set /etc/PolicyKit.conf like this after having problems with hal/dbus from testing per instruction that I read in some thread here. It works:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- XML -*- -->
<!DOCTYPE pkconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Configuration 1.0//EN"
"http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit/1.0/config.dtd">
<!-- See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format -->
<config version="0.1">
<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable">
<return result="yes"/>
</match>
</config>
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I am using the hal/dbus from testing so skottish's solution was perfect.
Thank you all for the quick responses.
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