I'm running XFCE 4.8 on Debian Testing, with everything up to date; I'm using xdm as my display manager. Any attempt by a non-root user to mount a USB device in Thunar fails with the message "Mount Failed: Failed to mount "[device]" Not Authorized". I do have Thunar set to mount removable media automatically.
This seems to have been a problem from the start of 4.8; there's quite a bit of discussion of this for Arch Linux and Slackware, but I can't find anything useful for Debian. It seems to be an issue with ConsoleKit, but the solutions for Arch don't really apply for Debian as the setup is different. There was a discussion of this in the Debian forum when 4.8 came out at http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=63088&start=60 but there was no clean answer. A related problem is that I am not able to restart or shut down using the graphical tools; here's a recent discussion of this on the XFCE forum from a Debian Testing user: http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=6343 This also seems to depend on a ConsoleKit permissions issue. I don't particularly care about this myself, as it's easy enough to do this from the commandline; I'm mentioning it only as a parallel. I'd be grateful for any suggestions. This does seriously affect the usability of the system, and it's getting very frustrating; I'd think that the ability of a regular user to hotplug removable media should be an important thing to have working. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
