USB devices won't mount

[Claude Jones]

Whether a pen-drive or external hard drive, I now get the
following "Permission denied: not in active session" error
message in a little window, and the Konqueror screen for the
device is blank. I've read through page after page of google
hits on this, but none seem to address my specific issue. It was
working perfectly up till a few weeks ago.
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Claude Jones
Levit & James, Inc.
Leesburg, VA, USA

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[Olaf Mueller]

Claude Jones wrote:

Hello.

Post by Claude Jones
Whether a pen-drive or external hard drive, I now get the
following "Permission denied: not in active session" error
message in a little window, and the Konqueror screen for the
device is blank. I've read through page after page of google
hits on this, but none seem to address my specific issue. It was
working perfectly up till a few weeks ago.

Yes, I have seen this too. It's a problem with ConsoleKit. If you add
your device to fstab you could mount it, I suspect. Some people could
also solve this by removing a file
called /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/gparted-disable-automount.fdi. But
there was no such a file on my system.

Since I have tried out fedora 7 I appreciated my good old fedora core
6.


regards
Olaf


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[Rex Dieter]

Post by Claude Jones
Whether a pen-drive or external hard drive, I now get the
following "Permission denied: not in active session" error
message in a little window, and the Konqueror screen for the
device is blank. I've read through page after page of google
hits on this, but none seem to address my specific issue. It was
working perfectly up till a few weeks ago.

Is this a clean f7 install or upgraded (from fc6)? There's an open bug
in redhat's bugzilla that seems to affect folks who upgraded. Never
seen that myself...

-- Rex

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[Claude Jones]

Is this a clean f7 install or upgraded (from fc6)?  There's an
open bug in redhat's bugzilla that seems to affect folks who
upgraded.  Never seen that myself...

This is not F7 - sorry, I should have specified - it's FC6
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Claude Jones
Levit & James, Inc.
Leesburg, VA, USA

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[Rex Dieter]

Post by Claude Jones

Is this a clean f7 install or upgraded (from fc6)?  There's an
open bug in redhat's bugzilla that seems to affect folks who
upgraded.  Never seen that myself...

This is not F7 - sorry, I should have specified - it's FC6

anything bugzilla'd yet? (If not, please do)

-- Rex


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[Claude Jones]

anything bugzilla'd yet?  (If not, please do)

OK - I found a thread about a similar problem with F7
I'm going to try the suggestions there when I get in to the office

[Claude Jones]

Post by Claude Jones

anything bugzilla'd yet?  (If not, please do)

OK - I found a thread about a similar problem with F7
I'm going to try the suggestions there when I get in to the
office

Below is the thread to which I alluded:

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Post by Claude Jones
Hi list
      Fresh install of F7. I just plugged in two different USB

external hard rives

Post by Claude Jones
and none of them were auto mounted. Both drives are IDE drives

in external

Post by Claude Jones
USB enclosures. One is a laptop drive and the enclosure gets

its power from

Post by Claude Jones
the USB socket, the other is standard size drive and the

enclosure has its

Post by Claude Jones
own power supply. Any ideas?

This is determined by
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi.
You can either edit it or just move it out of that location and
auto
mounting would work.

It has been done as a security measure but policy kit in Fedora 8
should
make this much more usable. There is a recent discussion in
fedora-devel
list about this FYI.

Rahul

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I tried editing the file, changing the two 'false' statements
to 'true' - that produced a udev failure warning on bootup, and
hotplugging didn't work; then, I just deleted my modified file
and renamed the original with an extension; that produced no
error but hotplug still didn't work. I am able to mount the
devices as root, but then they have root permissions, and I can
only read from them. I have a USB pen drive, and an external USB
hard drive - both used to work perfectly with automount

So, is this a hal or udev issue...or something else? - trying to
figure out what I'd bugzilla.
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Claude Jones
Levit & James, Inc.
Leesburg, VA, USA

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