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dienadel

Member

Registered: 2005-12-23

Posts: 179

Can't mount data CD in KDE

Today, trying to mount a CD in KDE, this error message have appeared:

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A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration files (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member "Mount" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")
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I'm annoyed. I don't know what want to say that error.

I have change never any configuration of hal, dbus... and, a weeks ago, i hadn't problems to mount CD in KDE. The normal window saying "what do you want to do", now is missed and only appears that error.

As root, the CD can be mounted, and, music CD are ok as normal user.

I don't know what upgrade "crashed" the system, as there is a lot of time i don't mount a data CD.

I only use current, extra and community for ktorrent and kmldonkey.

Any idea or help?

Thanks!

mouse256

Member

From: Antwerpen, Belgium

Registered: 2005-08-24

Posts: 247

Re: Can't mount data CD in KDE

Are you a member of the "Storage" group? I received errors that looked like that I think when I wasn't a member of the storage group...

PavelZh

Member

From: Russia

Registered: 2006-08-04

Posts: 31

Re: Can't mount data CD in KDE

I'm a member a 'storage' group, the latest version of hal and dbus installed from testing, but when I tried to mount my Transcend Flash as non-privileged user, I got the same message:

A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration files (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member "Mount" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal").

I founded (via Google) that the same problem was in Debian, and solution was "install the latest hal".

Who have a working non-priveleged mount, please say your versions of required packages

mouse256

Member

From: Antwerpen, Belgium

Registered: 2005-08-24

Posts: 247

Re: Can't mount data CD in KDE

it's working here...
Maybe you have some .pacsave / .pacnew files you need to update to get the right configuration working? I'm just guessing...

PavelZh

Member

From: Russia

Registered: 2006-08-04

Posts: 31

Re: Can't mount data CD in KDE

I forgot to say - this problem, as I think, is for KDE 3.5.4 only.
Look here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-qt-kde/2 … 00205.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermai … 00515.html

tpowa

Developer

From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,328

Re: Can't mount data CD in KDE

try optical group for cds

mouse256

Member

From: Antwerpen, Belgium

Registered: 2005-08-24

Posts: 247

Re: Can't mount data CD in KDE

hmm, I just had some troubles with hal and unmounting cd's here too.
My solution was to remove all the lines in fstab that pointed to the cd drive.  I've had problems like that with hal before, you should see that there is NO rule in fstab for the partition/drive hal has to manage, it gives problems.
Maybe that's your problem too?

dienadel

Member

Registered: 2005-12-23

Posts: 179

Re: Can't mount data CD in KDE

Sorry for the late answer. here is the... no, wait... i tried to mount a CD while writing this post, and none problem... hum...

i hadn't changed anything. I don't no why, now, all works.

Thanks anyway :-)

dienadel

detto

Member

Registered: 2006-01-23

Posts: 510

Re: Can't mount data CD in KDE

maybe the problem was that the new groupadding, to storage and/or optical got recognized after uve logged out and in again, just a guess

PavelZh

Member

From: Russia

Registered: 2006-08-04

Posts: 31

Re: Can't mount data CD in KDE

Well, the solution found:

- add user to group 'storage' (and, may be, to 'optical' - in my case user already belong to this group) and REBOOT (logout was not enough in my case) the system
- remove or comment entries /dev/cdrom, /dev/dvd from /etc/fstab

Thanks to all

But the next trouble found: if CD/Flash/DVD contain non-English characters (for example, Cyriilic) in filenames, they appear as '?????'. Early, I could fix this using 'iocharset=' and 'codepage=' parameters in /etc/fstab. Now I don't use fstab for mount options. There I can set new mount options?

I send the bug report to KDE Team
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133444

And the same problem was posted later
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133456