https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=368545 Summary: Hotplug a USB drive, mounting is denied by policy Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Hotplug AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: jimc@math.ucla.edu QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Customer I plug in a USB storage device, and notification-daemon exudes a message box saying "Cannot mount volume. Error org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy. Details: hal-storage-mount-removable no <-- (action,result)" The desktop manager (xfce) does put an icon for the drive on the desktop. Hotplug mounting used to work, in SuSE 10.2. Quoting another user: "You'd have the files off that thing by now if you had used Windows." If I remove the device (wait...) and plug it in again, it is again not mounted. If I log out, log in again, then plug in the device, it is again not mounted (different behavior from bug 342564). My OS is up to date on patches; specific versions are: PolicyKit-0.4-21, hal-0.5.9_git20070831-13.2, resmgr-1.1.0_SVNr143-11, gdm-2.20.0-8.2, dbus-1-1.0.2-59.2, gnome-volume-manager-2.17.0-105, xfce4-desktop-4.4.1-65 These configuration files have not been hacked: /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/hal-storage.policy (or any others in this directory), /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf. These directories are empty: /var/run/polkit-console, /etc/PolicyKit/privilege.d (no sign of desktop-console.privilege anywhere). policykitd (which we had in SuSE 10.2) is not on my machine, nor is it in the file list of any RPM on the 10.3 DVD, nor does any file in /usr/share/dbus-1/services contain Name=org.freedesktop.PolicyKit. Neither is pam-polkit-console installed, nor can I identify a RPM containing it. Workaround: If I *do* hack /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf adding this stanza within the <config> unit, the device is mounted when hotplugged: <match action="hal-storage-mount-removable"> <return result="yes"/> </match> But in a student lab environment you want only the console user to be authorized to monkey with removable devices; this workaround is only satisfactory on a personally owned machine. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.