I am having the same issue. Last time, I ran an update using update manager,
which restarted my system and all permissions were made available. After one
day found my system turned off, when restarted, the permissions were dropped
again. Saw this in my system log:
Oct 2 15:22:52 bhanubuntu
** Changed in: devicekit-disks (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Won't Fix
** Changed in: devicekit-disks (Ubuntu)
Status: Won't Fix = Fix Released
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Not authorized to mount ntfs harddisks anymore
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same problem for me starting today on lucid amd64
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Same problem after doing update upgrade. pmount helped.
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Not authorized to mount ntfs harddisks anymore
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External disk mounting seems to be working again.
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** Attachment added: AtaSmartBlob_sda.gz
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37942558/AtaSmartBlob_sda.gz
** Attachment added: AtaSmartBlob_sdb.gz
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37942559/AtaSmartBlob_sdb.gz
** Attachment added: BootDmesg.txt
