hald/xfce removable media

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Michael Rudolph wrote:

> On Sunday 13 April 2008 05:15:33 Warren Block wrote:
>> Removable media in xfce used to automatically mount, at least as of a
>> few weeks ago.  Now I see:
>>
>> Failed to mount "NIKON D40".
>> org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed no <-- (action, result).
>>
> you might want to have a look at
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html#q3
>
> I hope that helps.

It does!  For future searching: adding

<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable">
   <match user="marcus">
     <return result="yes"/>
   </match>
</match>

with the appropriate username to PolicyKit.conf solves this.  With GNOME 
(or maybe just gdm), it sounds like this would happen automatically. 
(I'm using xdm and xfce).

Thanks!

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA