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   Message 15,955 of 17,684   
   Wim Cossement to All   
   Re: Automounting removable devices in KD   
   07 Dec 07 14:29:59   
   
   From: a@b.c   
      
   Al wrote:   
   > Wim Cossement wrote:   
   >   
   >> Hi ALOG,   
   >>   
   >> I've got a small problem with automounting USB devices in KDE and it   
   >> looks like it's permission related.   
   >>   
   >> First I was always getting this message (from Konqueror):   
   >>   
   >> 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")   
   >>   
   >> So after checking the D-BUS, HAL, KDE media:/ Howto on the Gentoo Wiki   
   >> site the only thing I had not done was adding the right user to the   
   >> plugdev group but this has been taken care of now but it's still a no go   
   >> (I've reloaded the affected services too).   
   >>   
   >> The message has changed however:   
   >>   
   >> Connection is closed   
   >>   
   >> I'm sure tis something simple and I can solve it by putting an entry in   
   >> /etc/fstab and having it user-mountable but sometimes the device node   
   >> changes so this is not the preferred solution.   
   >>   
   >> Anything I can try next?   
   >>   
   >> Wimmy   
   >>   
   > when I had this it was because I was not in the plugdev group   
      
   Hmzz, it seems to work now but it's kinda odd it took that long...   
   Perhaps /etc/group is only read periodically (or when you log in)?   
      
   Wimmy   
      
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