On Sunday, February 20, 2011 04:01:05 Christian Gusenbauer wrote: > Hi! > > I've a problem automounting an USB stick on KDE 4.5.5 and current. At the > very first time after booting the machine, I can insert the USB stick and > the stick will be automounted without problems. But if I unmount it using > the eject button and remove the stick, it will not be automounted again if > I reinsert it > > :-(. > > After reinserting the stick, I get a > > Error: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy: > org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed auth_admin_keep_always <-- (action, > result) > > It's funny, because HAL thinks that it's a 'mount-fixed' device and not a > 'mount-removeable' one (which HAL reports at the very first time). > > So what's wrong with HAL or my setup? How can I track down that problem or > is it already a well-known one? > > Thanks, > Christian.
Hi, I can't explain why HAL would think your USB stick is removable at one point and then think it is fixed later on, but I do have a USB hard drive that HAL also thinks is a fixed disk. Here's how I deal with it: Here is what my /usr/local/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf looks like: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- XML -*- --> <!DOCTYPE pkconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Configuration 1.0//EN" "http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit/1.0/config.dtd";> <!-- See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format --> <config version="0.1"> <match user="root"> <return result="yes"/> </match> <define_admin_auth group="wheel"/> <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable"> <match user="username"> <return result="yes"/> </match> </match> <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed"> <match user="username"> <return result="yes"/> </match> </match> </config> The <match user="username"> sections can be omitted if all users are allowed to mount devices. I have also been able to mount my drive without the <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed"> section by adding the following line to /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi: <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">false</merge> Cheers, Jason _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
