Re: USB media no longer shows up in file manager for root or normal users
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Nick Lidakis <nlidakis@verizon.net> wrote:
> 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.
Apologies. I had the same problem you had (USB drive would not mount
automatically for ordinary users), and learned (from help here) that
consolekit was to blame. But now, even with the earlier consolekit,
I'm having the same problem again. I tried upgrading consolekit and
found that permissions were even worse (clicking the off/on button in
X did NOTHING instead of giving me the restart menu), but evidently
the permissions problem has spread. Now I'm not sure where to look
for it.
Patrick
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