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#1 2008-04-20 22:18:58
- Falcata
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Arch won't let me use Flash Drive.
Whenever I plug in my Flash Drive and try to mount it or open it in Konqueror, I get the following error message:
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")
Anybody know how to fix this, and why it occurred?
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#2 2008-04-20 23:34:29
- lilsirecho
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Re: Arch won't let me use Flash Drive.
Can you "see" the drive in gparted?
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#3 2008-04-20 23:48:37
- elliott
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Re: Arch won't let me use Flash Drive.
I seem to remember an issue like that when my user wasn't part of the storage group.
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#4 2008-04-21 10:38:52
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Re: Arch won't let me use Flash Drive.
Yeah, "storage" group seems to be important.
$ grep storage /etc/group /etc/passwd
/etc/group:storage:x:95:hal,me
$ grep storage /etc/udev/rules.d/*
/etc/udev/rules.d/51-arch.rules:KERNEL=="sd*", ATTRS{scsi_level}=="0", ATTRS{type}=="0", GROUP="storage"
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#5 2008-04-21 10:44:22
- olle
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Re: Arch won't let me use Flash Drive.
sudo gpasswd -a $USER storage (if you have sudo installed and configured)
or: su -p
then: gpasswd -a $USER storage (if you don't have sudo installed)
you might want to add yourself to theese groups too: audio, optical, network, wheel (and hal if you have installed it and loaded it in modules)
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#6 2008-04-21 22:43:51
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Re: Arch won't let me use Flash Drive.
I am able to see the drive in gparted, yes. However, adding myself to the storage group did not work.
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#7 2008-04-22 01:08:40
- lilsirecho
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Re: Arch won't let me use Flash Drive.
In gparted, what are the particulars for the flash drive? Does it have a partition?
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#8 2008-04-22 06:17:43
- suolx
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Re: Arch won't let me use Flash Drive.
I had problem with gparted and hal, because gparted installs Hal policy, not to autodetect external storages.
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#9 2008-04-22 20:48:45
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Re: Arch won't let me use Flash Drive.
My flash drive has started working again, after I had rebooted my computer. Said rebooting had happened several times while I was trying to fix xorg.conf.
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