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fileunderwater

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Registered: 2009-11-08

Posts: 21

solution to USB automount

I've had some problems with automounting USB-devices, and didn't find a solution here in the wiki or the forum. After some googling and testing I found this solution to the problem, and though that I should post it here for others to find. Maybe its old news though, or there are better ways to do this.

The USB icon popped up on the desktop but I got an error message that was something like:

error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0
destination="org.freedesktop.Hal" (uid=0 pid=1567 comm="/usr/sbin/hald))

I tried this solution in the wiki but it didn't work
edit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi
add:
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">false</merge>

The solution that worked for me was to add this section to /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf

<policy group="storage">
<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"/>
<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto"/>
</policy>

Last edited by fileunderwater (2010-01-21 17:28:02)