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#1 2006-08-14 16:42:09

koyi
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From: Osaka, Japan
Registered: 2005-08-15
Posts: 37

gnome-volume-manager's security policy

Hi, I am trying to make gnome-volume-manager to automatically mounts CDs, USB drives, etc. but I cannot figure it out.

I have searched through the forum and realised that there was one time that the kernel has broken hal, if this is not the case for now, please help me out to solve the problem.

Version of related programs:
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kernel26 2.6.17.8-1
hal 0.5.7.1-1
dbus 0.62-1
pmount 0.9.11-1
gnome-volume-manager 1.5.15-4

What I have done so far:
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1. Added myself to group "hal", "dbus", "disk", "optical", "storage"
2. Killed gvm and restarted it with "gnome-volume-manager -n" and below is the error message I ve got when I plugged in my USB drive. Similar error message for CDs, too.

manager.c/2261: Device added: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_411_2a_00000B11B889
manager.c/2261: Device added: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_411_2a_00000B11B889_if0
manager.c/2261: Device added: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_411_2a_00000B11B889_if0_scsi_host
manager.c/2261: Device added: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_411_2a_00000B11B889_usbraw
manager.c/2261: Device added: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_411_2a_00000B11B889_if0_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun0
manager.c/2261: Device added: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_USB_HS_WDC_WD3200JB_00K_00000B11B889
manager.c/2036: not a mountable volume: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_USB_HS_WDC_WD3200JB_00K_00000B11B889
manager.c/2261: Device added: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_00FB_1322manager.c/1565: mounting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_00FB_1322...
manager.c/1693: mount failed for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_00FB_1322: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member "Mount" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")

Thanks for any input.

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#2 2006-08-14 23:32:32

koyi
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From: Osaka, Japan
Registered: 2005-08-15
Posts: 37

Re: gnome-volume-manager's security policy

After I rebooted the computer, the problem has gone away smile So I guess the above is enough for making it work. Sorry for asking before making sure tongue

But now I have another question, how do I prevent certain drives(like my windows partition) being mounted automatically?

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#3 2006-08-15 15:02:20

kill
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Registered: 2004-09-30
Posts: 126

Re: gnome-volume-manager's security policy

koyi wrote:

how do I prevent certain drives(like my windows partition) being mounted automatically?

In your /etc/fstab add the noauto option. For example:

/dev/hdc               /mnt/cdrom      iso9660         noauto,ro,user  0 0

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#4 2006-08-15 16:41:10

koyi
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From: Osaka, Japan
Registered: 2005-08-15
Posts: 37

Re: gnome-volume-manager's security policy

Ok, that helps big_smile

Thanks.

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