Re: [gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives [SOLVED]

2011-02-27 Thread luis jure
on 2011-02-27 at 13:51 Paul Colquhoun wrote: Hmmm. equery b for /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf or just /etc/PolicyKit doesn't return any packages on my system. from what i could find on the web, it seems to me that /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf belongs to a deprecated policykit package,

[gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives [SOLVED]

2011-02-27 Thread walt
On 02/27/2011 04:54 AM, luis jure wrote: PENDING ISSUE: on thunar (and xfce, the other file manager i occasionally use) i can eject the drive but no umount it (i mean the ability to umount the file system but not delete the mount point under /media) The auth/policy landscape has changed so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread luis jure
on 2011-02-26 at 06:00 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Make sure you have udev enabled for your desktop environment. Or HAL, if it doesn't support udev. Then it will just work. hi nikos, the only package in xfce that has a flag for udev is xfce-base/xfce4-session and it is set. i-m afraid it

[gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/26/2011 04:46 PM, luis jure wrote: on 2011-02-26 at 11:30 luis jure wrote: i had already installed this plugin, but it doesn't seem to do much: an icon for the device appears on the side panel, but no corresponding mount point is created under /media. when i click on the icon a Not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread luis jure
on 2011-02-26 at 16:53 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Do you have any entries for those devices in /etc/fstab? If yes, delete them. They interfere with automounting. i had already deleted them, only after doing so the device icon began to appear on thunar. but i can't mount it as a normal user,

[gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/26/2011 05:09 PM, luis jure wrote: on 2011-02-26 at 16:53 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Do you have any entries for those devices in /etc/fstab? If yes, delete them. They interfere with automounting. i had already deleted them, only after doing so the device icon began to appear on

[gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread walt
On 02/26/2011 03:40 AM, luis jure wrote: on 2011-02-26 at 06:00 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Make sure you have udev enabled for your desktop environment. Or HAL, if it doesn't support udev. Then it will just work. hi nikos, the only package in xfce that has a flag for udev is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread luis jure
on 2011-02-26 at 14:44 walt wrote: xfce4-session also recognizes the policykit and consolekit USE flag, and those two things seem to be the way of the future (until tomorrow, anyway) for desktop managers like kde and gnome. xfce has always been closely related to gnome, and it still uses the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:04:41 luis jure wrote: on 2011-02-26 at 14:44 walt wrote: xfce4-session also recognizes the policykit and consolekit USE flag, and those two things seem to be the way of the future (until tomorrow, anyway) for desktop managers like kde and gnome. xfce has always been

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread luis jure
on 2011-02-27 at 11:32 Paul Colquhoun wrote: If it involved PolicyKit, that may be the cause. Look in /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf and see if that is blocking your access. mmm... i don't have this file (or the /etc/PolicyKit directory, for that matter). i only have the /etc/polkit-1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:10:37 luis jure wrote: on 2011-02-27 at 11:32 Paul Colquhoun wrote: If it involved PolicyKit, that may be the cause. Look in /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf and see if that is blocking your access. mmm... i don't have this file (or the /etc/PolicyKit directory, for that