Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 21:55:40 +0800, Richard van der Veen wrote: > > Hello I use Debian Sid and i used to have this configuration that whenever i > > put the USB stick into the computer i see a window opened to let me choose if > > i want to mount the stick and see its contents. But after some updates this
> > behaviour is not working anymore ... the window still pops up woth this > > question but when i try to mount the usbstick i get a cryptic error message > > and i don't know in which configuration file i have to search to make some > > changes ... can someone help me? ... The error message is: > > > > 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") > > Assuming you are using KDE, this will fix your problem: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/07/msg03013.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2006/08/msg00010.html > Interesting; I'm on Debian Sid, running a 2.6.16-2.686 kernel; I notice that for my regular $username that I log in with - in /etc/group that $username is listed alongside these groups *dialout *cdrom *floppy *audio *video --and-- *plugdev* I notice in /etc/group there's a hal entry; hal:x:106: Does anyone think that by adding the $username to that group as well, will help here ?? Just curious ...and I do not have, nor use USB pen drives, otherwise I'd test it myself -- thanks.. Regards __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]