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Akheron 06-12-2009 07:31 PM

usb drive not mounting
 
Hello all. got a small problem in slackware 12.2. im pretty sure this is a policy problem with the user. ive got two users, root and then my general use account. under root i have no problem accessing my usb drive but under my other account i get this error:

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")

Does anyone how how i can fix this? Any help would be great. Thanks in advance!

Akheron 06-13-2009 01:00 PM

For anyone with the same problem i figured it out. The user needs to be in the group "plugdev". I did this, restarted my computer and it worked fine.

archtoad6 07-21-2009 06:25 AM

Congratulations on finding your own answer, & thank you for being a good LQ citizen by posting that answer.

onebuck 07-21-2009 03:06 PM

Hi,

Just a note to new users. For 'adduser' you will add your user to the 'users' then you will be prompted for additional groups. If you press the up arrow you will get a suggested groups list. Just press return or edit the line then return as these groups are 'floppy audio video cdrom plugdev'. :)

BTW, this is prompted to you on the screen. So read those screens! :)


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