From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OWtbd-0005wu-E3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:05:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 184A6E0B95 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 16:05:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qmta05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.48]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A643EE090B for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 15:36:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta17.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.89]) by qmta05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id fRjl1e0021vXlb855TczKs; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:36:59 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.4] ([69.242.201.158]) by omta17.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id fTcy1e00n3RZVhR3dTczVx; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:36:59 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Unable to mount USB and CD on Gnome From: Drake Donahue To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1278598519.20978.20.camel@caguiar-gentoo.madeiratecnopolo.pt> References: <1278598519.20978.20.camel@caguiar-gentoo.madeiratecnopolo.pt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:36:57 -0400 Message-ID: <1278603417.9468.0.camel@oddman.donahues.us.> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9180b68f-80ce-43db-9bd5-11771beaabd2 X-Archives-Hash: 08ca758a11b85a603e8e13c28e643900 On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 15:15 +0100, Clemente Aguiar wrote: > For a while now when I insert a CD / DVD or a USB pen drive on my PC, it > will not mount, and GNOME gives an error. > > If it is the DVD the error is as follows: > Unable to mount "DVDLABEL" > Not Authorized > > If it is the USB pen drive the error is similar: > Unable to mount File System 1,0GB > Not Authorized > > If I login as root then there is no problem, the disks will mount (and > automount correctly), but if I login as a "normal" user it will not > automount, and even if I go through the menu and select the drive it > will not mount giving exactly the same error. > > One interesting note is that I can mount and unmount using gnome-mount > and gnome-unmount utilities, for example: > > $ gnome-mount -d /dev/sdb1 > $ gnome-umount -d /dev/sdb1 > > Can anybody help me with this problem? > > add the user to plugdev