Re: Unable to mount [device] Not Authorized
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 02:58:43PM +0000, AG wrote:
> On 16/02/11 08:37, Chris wrote:
> >Hi everyone,
> >
> >Since I do a normal update, I can't mount my flash drive from
> >nautilus. It works before.
> >The error message is:
> >
> >Unable to mount [device]
> >Not Authorized
> >
> >But if I manually mount using "sudo mount ...", it works fine.
> >
> >I found this post,
> >http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/02/msg01022.html, but I can't
> >go back to the previous version of consolekit because of dependencies.
> >And I still don't understand the problem.
> >I'm using debian testing.
> >Could anyone provide any advice? Thanks.
> >
> >
> I had a similar problem with my Seagate 500GB external flash drive
> after a fresh installation to testing/ wheezy. The trick seemed to
> be to create a specific directory in /media/ for it to be mounted
> to:
>
> sudo mkdir /media/flash-drive
>
> Then edit your fstab file so that the device is specifically mounted
> to that directory/ mount point.
>
> I also changed the settings for that entry to be "auto" rather than
> "noauto".
>
> Finally, make sure that you have entered yourself as user into the
> relevant groups - such as udev and hal and that you have permissions
> to mount removable drives.
>
> I'm sorry that I don't have a clear recipe for this, but am
> retracing my own steps to resolve the issue and it did work - I now
> have the flash drive mounted by the time I logon.
>
> I hope that this helps you out.
>
> AG
>
>
>
Thank you. But I don't want my flash drive mounted when I logon because
that won't work when I have to mount a new flash drive. I just want to
recover the function which worked before.
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