Norm wrote:
Recently I have had a problem mounting my Flash drive
I am using core 6 fully patched. after the original problem with core 6
not automatically mounting a flash drive when it booted to level 5 a
new patch removed that problem now it seems to have returned in a new way.
I can mount the drive using a variety of techniques from command line
options to log on as root, log out and log on as a user.
It is only when I log on as a user directly from a boot that I have the
problem (it started last week). As I am in the process of setting up a
laptop for my 84 year old father for Christmas I don't want to deal with
explaining command line or logging on as a root first.
When I open "computer" as a user and then attempt to open the flash
drive the error message I get is
"Cannot mount Volume
Error org.freedesktop.Dbus.Error.AccessDenied.
Details
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")
From what I can determine it is not associated with SELinux and even
after I tried a fresh install using default install settings the same
problem occurred. Have others had a similar problem recently?
Norm, just for some reference {with fc6 updated this morning}, I plugged
in my usb stick, while having a terminal open running:
# tail -f /var/log/messages
and see:
Dec 13 14:43:33 davidtdesktop kernel: usb 3-1: new high speed USB device
using ehci_hcd and address 3
Dec 13 14:43:33 davidtdesktop kernel: usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen
from 1 choice
Dec 13 14:43:33 davidtdesktop kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB
Mass Storage devices
Dec 13 14:43:38 davidtdesktop kernel: Vendor: USBDisk Model: RunDisk
Rev: 1.00
Dec 13 14:43:38 davidtdesktop kernel: Type: Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Dec 13 14:43:38 davidtdesktop kernel: SCSI device sda: 998800 512-byte
hdwr sectors (511 MB)
Dec 13 14:43:38 davidtdesktop kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Dec 13 14:43:38 davidtdesktop kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write
through
Dec 13 14:43:38 davidtdesktop kernel: SCSI device sda: 998800 512-byte
hdwr sectors (511 MB)
Dec 13 14:43:38 davidtdesktop kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Dec 13 14:43:38 davidtdesktop kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write
through
Dec 13 14:43:38 davidtdesktop kernel: sda: sda1
Dec 13 14:43:38 davidtdesktop kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi
removable disk sda
Dec 13 14:43:38 davidtdesktop kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic
sg0 type 0
Dec 13 14:43:38 davidtdesktop kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev sda1,
type vfat), uses genfs_contexts
Dec 13 14:43:38 davidtdesktop hald: mounted /dev/sda1 on behalf of uid 500
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and nautilus opens showing the contents of the stick.
What do you get ?
What about any messages about dbus ?
# grep dbus /var/log/messages
DaveT.
