Re: What prevents mounting of USB devices?

[Clive McBarton <clivemcbarton@web.de>]

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Florian Kulzer wrote:
> Did you have any security upgrades lately 

Sure, I install them regularly. Doesn't everybody?

> or did you install packages from backports or volatile

I do have the following as part of my sources.conf:

deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
contrib non-free
deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main

I am not sure if I actually installed anything from volatile.

> or any non-Debian stuff? 

Yes, from debian-multimedia.org. Presumably that counts as non-Debian.

> Another thing to try is to activate the desktop icons for removable
> devices and test if users can mount the devices by clicking on the
> icons.

Sorry to sound stupid, but how do I activate those? Right now I don't
see any icons on the desktop when plugging devices in.

> I suspect that the fstab entry is not really a problem. Maybe you can
> setup pmount for the individual users so that it is more convenient.

Yes, the pmount works fine now, it did not even require setting anything up.

> Unfortunately I do not understand what else your dbus error message is
> trying to tell us. I would run "lshal --monitor", then plug in a USB
> stick and try to mount it; maybe that will turn up something useful.
> 
> Seeing what hal knows about a USB stick might also help; hal can be
> queried like this:
> 
> lshal -u $(hal-find-by-property --key block.device --string "/dev/sdX")
> lshal -u $(hal-find-by-property --key block.device --string "/dev/sdX1")
> 
> (Replace "sdX" as is appropriate)

Thanks for showing and explaining lshal to me. I'll explore with it and
report if I find something interesting.

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