Package: hal Version: 0.5.7-2 Followup-For: Bug #377689 Hello. I suggest using a temporary solution which consist on modifying the hal.conf file so that plugdev group users could mount the media.
I attach the patch. It works for me after restarting dbus and kde. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-ck1-p4s Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages hal depends on: ii adduser 3.95 Add and remove users and groups ii dbus 0.62-4 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-2 0.62-4 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.62-4 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3.2 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.3-3 The GLib library of C routines ii libhal1 0.5.7-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-2 userspace USB programming library ii lsb-base 3.1-10 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii pciutils 1:2.2.1-2 Linux PCI Utilities ii udev 0.093-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo ii usbutils 0.72-4 USB console utilities hal recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
--- etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf 2006-08-02 10:08:39.000000000 +0200 +++ etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf.old 2006-05-01 23:07:23.000000000 +0200 @@ -53,11 +53,5 @@ --> </policy> - <!-- Allow plugdev members to mount volumes --> - <policy group="plugdev"> - <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"/> - <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto"/> - </policy> - </busconfig>