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 1PtX03-0005z8-24 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 03:08:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80BAF1C069 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 03:08:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nschwmtas06p.mx.bigpond.com (nschwmtas06p.mx.bigpond.com [61.9.189.152]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A88C91C00B for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 02:51:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nschwotgx03p.mx.bigpond.com ([121.209.221.138]) by nschwmtas06p.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20110227025120.HYPO759.nschwmtas06p.mx.bigpond.com@nschwotgx03p.mx.bigpond.com> for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 02:51:20 +0000 Received: from tux.localnet ([121.209.221.138]) by nschwotgx03p.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20110227025120.LNXT16083.nschwotgx03p.mx.bigpond.com@tux.localnet> for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 02:51:20 +0000 From: Paul Colquhoun To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:51:19 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.37-gentoo; KDE/4.6.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <20110225233107.04405a5b@acme7.acmenet> <201102271132.52892.paulcol@andor.dropbear.id.au> <20110227001037.04a0339c@acme7.acmenet> In-Reply-To: <20110227001037.04a0339c@acme7.acmenet> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102271351.19545.paulcol@andor.dropbear.id.au> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at nschwotgx03p.mx.bigpond.com from [121.209.221.138] using ID acol8118@bigpond.net.au at Sun, 27 Feb 2011 02:51:19 +0000 X-RPD-ScanID: Class unknown; VirusThreatLevel unknown, RefID str=0001.0A150202.4D69BC28.00FB,ss=1,fgs=0 X-SIH-MSG-ID: oho3FdT+TAD0zmR+0TexO1JwyFriqyB48Z4QWs1mqRMGTkTCp8DdS9rANv1Rt9u0xDxLJhqHNGQhaa7kTY3Rs9iK X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8d1b93fc2879b0206cbcc5c45ea5c192 On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:10:37 luis jure wrote: > on 2011-02-27 at 11:32 Paul Colquhoun wrote: > >If it involved PolicyKit, that may be the cause. Look in > >/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf and see if that is blocking your access. > > mmm... i don't have this file (or the /etc/PolicyKit directory, for that > matter). i only have the /etc/polkit-1 directory, belonging to > sys-auth/polkit. > > the PolicyKit.conf file should already be there? which package provides > it? or can i just create it from scratch? Hmmm. "equery b" for /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf or just /etc/PolicyKit doesn't return any packages on my system. I suspect that they belong to some part of KDE, as the permission errors I was tracking down came from the Dolphin file manager, and they could thus control how KDE uses the policykit framework. They may also be leftovers from when KDE/Gentoo used to use policykit, and have since stopped. It's sometimes hard to keep up with these changes. It's possible that I created the file and directory by hand, after finding instructions via Google search, such as https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=65070 In case you want to risk this, the full content of my file is: ##################### ##################### -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes.