Re: [gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives

[Paul Colquhoun <paulcol@andor.dropbear.id.au>]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:04:41 luis jure wrote:
> on 2011-02-26 at 14:44 walt wrote:
> >xfce4-session also recognizes the policykit and consolekit USE flag, and
> >those two things seem to be the way of the future (until tomorrow, anyway)
> >for desktop managers like kde and gnome.
> >
> >xfce has always been closely related to gnome, and it still uses the gnome
> >USE flag, I see.  I'd suggest setting the three USE flags I've mentioned
> >and see what happens.
> 
> OK, i undid everything i had been trying and decided to try this path. i
> recompiled xfce4-session with policykit, consolekit and gnome.
> 
> i don't have a graphical login manager, i start X with startx from the
> console, and my .xinitrc is simply:
> 
> exec ck-launch-session startxfce4
> 
> if i start X as root things work in a more or less satisfactory way: pen
> drives appear on the side bar on thunar and i can mount and eject them
> (not umount).
> 
> but if i start X as a normal user, i get a "not authorized" message from
> thunar and i can't mount the devices.
> 
> now, i belong to just about every group out there:
> 
> root disk lp wheel audio cdrom video cdrw usb users lpadmin portage
> plugdev lj vboxusers scanner
> 
> any ideas why i don't have permissions to mount the usb drives?
> (also, after doing these changes i can't shutdown or reboot form xfce)
> 
> anyway, it seems i'm getting closer... a big thank you to all that have
> been following this thread, i hope i'll be able to resolve this last
> issue...


If it involved PolicyKit, that may be the cause.  Look in 
/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf and see if that is blocking your access. I had 
to add/modify mine to allow user mounts. This is the relevent section I had to 
change:


<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.*">
        <return result="yes" />
</match>


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