Re: XFCE--can't mount USB devices

2011-10-13 Thread Brian
On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 22:09:53 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > Took me a bit to figure out why "restart" worked by "shutdown" didn't, > until I realized that I'm not "brian"... Sorry - it was a copy and paste from a testing directory without too much scrutinising. > What is the overall view of

Re: XFCE--can't mount USB devices

2011-10-13 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/12/2011 10:09 PM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: ... What is the overall view of this issue? Is this a bug? Is your solution the right one? Should it be fed back to the XFCE team? From my perspective, this should Just Work, and the user shouldn't be expected to figure out a solution like this

Re: XFCE--can't mount USB devices

2011-10-12 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 01:51:15PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 08:10:09 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > > (I assume this was meant to be "pam_loginuid.so") > > Yes. > > > I'm afraid I need Plan B. Making this change and rebooting had no effect > > on USB-device mounting or on

Re: XFCE--can't mount USB devices

2011-10-12 Thread Brian
On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 08:10:09 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > (I assume this was meant to be "pam_loginuid.so") Yes. > I'm afraid I need Plan B. Making this change and rebooting had no effect > on USB-device mounting or on the restart/shutdown display. Create /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-l

Re: XFCE--can't mount USB devices

2011-10-12 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/12/2011 05:53 AM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: ... usability of the system, and it's getting very frustrating; I'd think that the ability of a regular user to hotplug removable media should be an important thing to have working. ... I thought I'd add an additional comment about having regular

Re: XFCE--can't mount USB devices

2011-10-12 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/12/2011 05:53 AM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm running XFCE 4.8 on Debian Testing, with everything up to date; I'm using xdm as my display manager. Any attempt by a non-root user to mount a USB device in Thunar fails with the message "Mount Failed: Failed to mount "[device]" Not Authorized"

Re: XFCE--can't mount USB devices

2011-10-12 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:20:27PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 05:53:10 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > > I'm running XFCE 4.8 on Debian Testing, with everything up to date; I'm > > using xdm as my display manager. Any attempt by a non-root user to mount > > a USB device in Thun

Re: XFCE--can't mount USB devices

2011-10-12 Thread Brian
On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 05:53:10 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > I'm running XFCE 4.8 on Debian Testing, with everything up to date; I'm > using xdm as my display manager. Any attempt by a non-root user to mount > a USB device in Thunar fails with the message "Mount Failed: Failed to > mount "[devi

Re: XFCE--can't mount USB devices

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
(Suggestion) check the mount options in /etc/fstab. For example, the lines for one of the user-accessible partitions on my external hard drive looks like this: # "Resources" partition on external HD (/dev/sdd2) UUID=---- /mnt/Resources.src ext4 user,noauto,relatime 0