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Shagbag

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Registered: 2006-10-25

Posts: 259

Can't mount USB mass storage device [RESOLVED]

I plugged in my iRiver mp3 player in an attempt to transfer files to it from my hard drive and it prompted me what I wanted to do with it (do nothing, open a folder, etc.).  Irrepsective of which alternative I choose, I get the following error:

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

Can anyone tell me what this means and what I need to do to fix the problem?

Bert

Member

From: Zwolle

Registered: 2006-04-10

Posts: 14

Re: Can't mount USB mass storage device [RESOLVED]

add yourself to the group storage

Shagbag

Member

Registered: 2006-10-25

Posts: 259

Re: Can't mount USB mass storage device [RESOLVED]

Thanks Bert.  It wasn't working until I realised I had to reboot to effect the new group membership!

Now I've got another problem.  My iRiver shows up with permissions:

drwxr-xr-x

How do I change them so that every time I connect it to my PC it allows me to write to it?
It's mounted as /media/IRIVER but I couldn't see a 'media' group in /etc/group.

kishd

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Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 401

Re: Can't mount USB mass storage device [RESOLVED]

No need to reboot just log out of you desktop and logout from console and log in again.

Please mark your post as [solved]

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trusktr

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From: .earth

Registered: 2010-02-18

Posts: 907

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Re: Can't mount USB mass storage device [RESOLVED]

@kishd Logging out didn't work. Killing the X and restarting didn't work either... I had to reboot Arch.

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Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: Can't mount USB mass storage device [RESOLVED]

trusktr, are you kidding me??

This thread is from 2006 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Closing...

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bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: Can't mount USB mass storage device [RESOLVED]

trusktr, really, you should know! This is a mega ultra necro post. Please don't do this again. You'll most probably risk a ban then.

Now, this is co-operation. Inxsible did beat me... ;-)

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