Josef Reidinger
This looks for me like dbus permission problem. You can see /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf if you have permission to action which is shown in error message.
I saw too many of these, so I ended up giving myself permission to all policykit actions by putting: ,---- | <match user="my user name"> | <return result="yes"/> | </match> `---- in /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf. Of course it can be more fine grained by doing something like this with action keys: ,---- | <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable"> | | <match user="my user name"> | | <return result="yes"/> | | </match> | | </match> | `---- To the people who don't know, you can see the list of actions by running polkit-action. I learned a lot about PolicyKit from this release. I miss the simplicity of resmgr and the readabilty of its config file. :-( Charles -- "All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory..." (By Larry Wall)