On Sunday 27 Nov 2016 09:40:55 Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Mick <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I'm not sure what I am missing on a laptop to be able to mount USB sticks
> > as plain user.  This laptop has been built with a no-multilib profile. 
> > The users are members of the plugdev group.
> > 
> > I don't want to create an fstab entry to be able to do this, because
> > various USB sticks are being plugged in at any time.  In dolphin I get
> > this error reported:
> > 
> > "An error occurred while accessing '512MB', the system responded:  An
> > unspecified error has occurred:  Not authorized to perform operation."
[snip ...]

> I used the instructions given in the forum post below to set up
> automatic mounting of removable drives on my systems.
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858965-start-0.html

Just what I was looking for, thanks!  :-)

It seems the no-multilib profile does not have consolekit enabled by default, 
so I had to add it and also unmerge upower-pm-utils and emerge upower.

It now works as I wanted it.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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