I have investigated this bug a little bit further. Please keep in mind that I am NOT a seasoned developer, just a user.
Since the Debian bug report mentioned a change in the udev permission rules I started by looking in the Debian udev changelog. From the following page: http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/udev I went to the changlog and searched for a reference to iRiver. I found the following changes to the file udev-0.093/rules/permissions.rules +# usbfs-like devices +SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", MODE="0664" + +# iRiver music players +SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", GROUP="plugdev", \ + SYSFS{idVendor}=="4102", SYSFS{idProduct}=="10[01][135789]" In Ubuntu Dapper the udev package installs the following file: /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules and looking in this file I found this line (similar to the first line above): # USB devices (usbfs replacement) SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", MODE="0664" however there was no reference in this file to an iRiver player. I backed up the file and then edited the file as root, adding the lines referring to the iRiver player. Now when I plug in my iRiver player to a usb port rhythmbox still auto- launches but I can now access my player as a regular (non-root) user. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/udev/rules.d$ ifp ls wrn: [ifp_delta] interesting, there were only 4 bytes. Detected: model IFP-780, firmware 1.21, battery =[####], delta 1.0.0.0 ... I still don't know what to do about the warning message or the auto- launching of rhythmbox but I am happy to report that I have non-root access to my flash player again. I hope the preceeding has been helpful. If you need any more information from me don't hesitate to ask. Regards, Jonathan Wiebe -- Only works as root https://launchpad.net/bugs/48871 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
