Hello, I upgraded both my desktop & laptop from 11.2 to 11.3 without any problems. Last week though, my desktop started throwing file system errors & figured the drive was probably dying. I booted from a live CD & was able to fsck the disk but the system panicked on boot, so I decided to install from scratch on a fresh drive & copy my data across. That all seemed to go will until I tried to hibernate or suspend or to access removable media such as my iPod or flash drives. Basically none of that works unless I login as root (or do sudo pm- hibernate or sudo mount /media/whatever, but then Amarok can't write to the iPod!). After doing some googling & testing, I realised the problem seems to be PolicyKit is preventing access - for instance if I run dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal \ /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer \ org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.Suspend int32:0 I get: Error org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy: org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.suspend auth_admin_keep_always <-- (action, result) I tried comparing conf files between the old drive & then new system, but can't seem to find any differences that would relate to this. In particular, /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf is the same on both - basically empty apart from a <!DOCTYPE> tag, a comment & a version number. I tried using KDE's System Policies settings but it doesn't seem to let you save any changes. Can anyone suggest a way to fix this? Thanks, Ian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org