Problems with mounting external harddrives

Toadsworth · 2010-05-28 02:01:47

I'm trying to use Thunar to mount some external harddrives, and here's the error I get as user:

Failed to mount "TB001V01".

(exo-mount:2108): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "mist",

(exo-mount:2108): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "mist",
Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.36" (uid=1000 pid=2108 comm="exo-mount) interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member="Mount" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal" (uid=0 pid=1555 comm="/usr/sbin/hald)).

I have two Arch machines within my reach and both do the same thing.
Thanks in advance!

Last edited by Toadsworth (2010-05-28 02:04:03)

Japanlinux · 2010-05-28 02:06:44

Well, I think this happened to me recently. Try going into the terminal and entering this:

sudo nano /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf

This opens the hal file. Look for this:

<policy at_console="true">

change the true to false, and it should work correctly.

What this does is allow you to mount the disk outside the console

Last edited by Japanlinux (2010-05-28 02:07:55)

Toadsworth · 2010-05-28 02:12:11

Japanlinux wrote:

Well, I think this happened to me recently. Try going into the terminal and entering this:
sudo nano /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf
This opens the hal file. Look for this:
<policy at_console="true">
change the true to false, and it should work correctly.
What this does is allow you to mount the disk outside the console

It worked! Thank you very much!

Is there anything in that file I can change to get me to be able to unmount volumes as a user?

Thanks again!

Last edited by Toadsworth (2010-05-28 02:16:57)

Japanlinux · 2010-05-28 06:32:51

Wish I knew that one. I also cannot unmount. I learned to live with it though. As long as I can mount, I'm happy However you fix the unmounting, I didn't see a way in that file, so it must be done some other way...

jasonwryan · 2010-05-28 06:50:01

Toadsworth wrote:

Is there anything in that file I can change to get me to be able to unmount volumes as a user?

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/pmount/

Arch Linux

#1 2010-05-28 02:01:47

Problems with mounting external harddrives

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Re: Problems with mounting external harddrives

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Re: Problems with mounting external harddrives

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Re: Problems with mounting external harddrives

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Re: Problems with mounting external harddrives

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