I have been plugging it in with X on. Haven't had time to look at some of the other good suggestions re hal config. On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 17:10 -0500, Michael Klinosky wrote: > Tom: > > Sorry if this has been asked before, but I just upgraded to Fedora 7 and > > when I plug in my USB stick I get "Error > > org.freedesktop.Hal.PermissionDenied." The Details box says "Not in > > active session". > > I had the same 'problem'. I asked here (apparently no one knew). I > finally figured it out for myself. > > It happens only when I plug it in with X turned off (with Ctrl-Aalt-Fx). > Just make sure that X is active (thus 'active session'), and it > shouldn't give that error. > Dr. Tom -- One requites a teacher badly if one remains merely a student. Thus spoke Zarathustra.