Re: "Unable to mount [device] Not Authorized"

[Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Andrei Popescu
<andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jo, 10 feb 11, 13:56:07, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>> Hello:
>>
>> On my up-to-date testing system (288 updates a couple of days ago,
>> right after the new stable went live!!), an SD drive, which previously
>> has mounted automatically on insertion, generates the error in my
>> subject line.  I Googled the error, and found that this is not the
>> first time people have experienced the problem, but found no reliable
>> solution.  I was able to run blkid to identify the device and then
>> mount it as root to get at the mp3 file on it, so I was able to
>> complete the work I needed to do.  But is there a reliable fix someone
>> could point me to?
>
> I'm holding back consolekit at 0.4.1-4 (now stable) for quite a while
> because of this. I think it's #597937.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.  Downgraded, rebooted, and now it
works again.  Odd that I wasn't warned of the bug, though, because I
do have apt-listbugs installed.

Patrick