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Re: USB media no longer shows up in file manager for root or normal users



On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 08:31:00PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> Revert to the stable consolekit.
> 
> Patrick
> On Jul 12, 2011 7:17 PM, "Nick Lidakis" <nlidakis@verizon.net> wrote:
> > I'm running the latest x86 Debian Sid...
> > Suddenly, USB media no longer shows up in Thunar. I have to mount them
> > as...

Ok I removed consolekit 0.4.5:

apt-get remove consolekit

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  consolekit policykit-1 policykit-1-gnome
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 23 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1,946 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 157546 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing policykit-1-gnome ...
Removing policykit-1 ...
Removing consolekit ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
phobos:/home/nick# 

Then install consolekit 0.4.1 from Debian stable:


phobos:/home/nick# dpkg -i consolekit_0.4.1-4_i386.deb 
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 498302
package 'cnews':
 error in Version string 'cr.g7-40.4': version number does not start with
digit
Selecting previously deselected package consolekit.
(Reading database ... 157416 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking consolekit (from consolekit_0.4.1-4_i386.deb) ...
Setting up consolekit (0.4.1-4) ...

I then did:

apt-get install policykit-1 policykit-1-gnome

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  policykit-1 policykit-1-gnome
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 24 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/146 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,274 kB of additional disk space will be used.
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 498302
package 'cnews':
 error in Version string 'cr.g7-40.4': version number does not start with
digit
Selecting previously deselected package policykit-1.
(Reading database ... 157445 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking policykit-1 (from .../policykit-1_0.101-4_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package policykit-1-gnome.
Unpacking policykit-1-gnome (from .../policykit-1-gnome_0.101-2_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up policykit-1 (0.101-4) ...
Setting up policykit-1-gnome (0.101-2) ...

Should I also install policykit-1 and policykit-1-gnome from stable as well?

After a reboot, no USB device get mounted. 


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