Hello,

excuse my trying to take advantage of the momentum this bug report seems
to still have, but I have a somewhat related issue accessing a removable
external SATA (eSATA) disk formatted with Ext3. I am using the latest
Kubuntu 7.10 (which by now should be all but properly released) with KDE
3.5.7.

Upon plugging in an external, removable SATA (eSATA) hard disk formatted
with Ext3 I get the following messages in .xsession-errors:

kded: ERROR: mount failed for 
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_6591d79f_e4db_4fb6_9edd_fdc18d5a9731: 
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy - hal-storage-fixed-mount 
refused uid 1000
kded: ERROR: mounting 
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_6591d79f_e4db_4fb6_9edd_fdc18d5a9731 
returned hal-storage-fixed-mount refused uid 1000

Dolphin (D3lphin) says "hal-storage-fixed-mount refused uid 1000", too.

Manually issuing "pmount /dev/sdb1 /media/mydisk" says:

Error: device /dev/sdb1 is not removable

Which is consistent with the lshal output saying "storage.removable =
false  (bool)" for that disk.

Manually mounting (i.e. with mount, not pmount) works fine. Creating an
entry in /etc/fstab and mounting via that works fine, too, both as a
regular user and as root.

I am not sure what exactly the underlying problem is, but I suspect that
noone has yet thought of describing a policy for removeable, external
SATA disks (formatted Ext3)? What does it take to write a suitable
policy? This also seems to be purely a HAL problem, not KDE-, kernel- or
even hardware-related. I am attaching the output of lshal as well.

Sorry again for hijacking this thread. I will eventually file a
standalone bug report on this problem, but maybe someone here knows how
to work around it.

Thanks in advance!

** Attachment added: "lshal output. The disk in question can be found as 
"HD501LJ"."
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10055143/lshal.txt

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