Re: Automount HDD KDE 4.4 Problem
On 2010-05-08 Leonardo Meira wrote:
> Dolphin does not mount my other hard drives. They appear in "places" but
> when I click I get a message
> ""org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.PermissionDenied: Refusing to mount
> device /dev/sdaX for uid = 1000"". I tried, as read in other forums, create
> a configuration file for Polkit but in vain.
> I also saw that this is a common problem in other Distros, possibly a
> problem with KDE 4.4.
> Important detail: in earlier versions of KDE 4.x I solved this problem by
> changing the permissions of the HAL PolicyKit module located in
> systemsettings but in KDE 4.4 this module is missing, ie has been removed
Search for a thread named "PolicyKit Authorization (System Settings) crashes every time"
First msg can be found here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2009/12/msg00073.html
and it continues here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2010/03/msg00087.html
It is indeed an issue with KDE 4.4 and has to do with the switch to policykit-1, which is in review
and will/should be included (again) with KDE 4.5
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