[nflug] HAL and thumb drives

[Joe]

Joe wrote:
> Corey Reichle wrote:
>   
>> Sounds almost like an SELinux thing... Do you have SELinux turned on?
>> If so, try to turn it off and try it again.
>>
>>
>> Oct 18, 2008 08:57:16 PM, nflug at nflug.org wrote:
>>
>>     What the HAL is going on?
>>
>>     I just love innocuous upgrades with unforeseen consequences.
>>     I am running kubuntu hardy with up to date packages.
>>
>>     I just plugged in two different thumb drives and got locked out of
>>     them. When I click on the desktop icon that appears after I plug the
>>     drive in, konqueror tries to open them but fails with the following
>>     message box:
>>
>>     A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this
>>     message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file
>>     (rejected
>>     message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member
>>     "mount"
>>     error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")
>>
>>     Next, I su'd to root and created a /media/thumb drive directory. I
>>     tried to chmod it to 777 and to chown it to my user.
>>     Both requests were ignored even though I was root!
>>
>>     Finally, I mounted the thumb drive (mount /dev/sdb1 /media/thumb
>>     drive)
>>     and copied my stuff to it as root from the command line. It's a fat32,
>>     so permissions don't matter, at least in this case, but having to do
>>     this was ridiculous.
>>
>>     I'm not "all thumbs", but I do need them!
>>
>>     Any ideas on fixing this so normal users can access thumb drives
>>     again?
>>
>>     Thanks.
>>
>>     Joe
>>
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> Not on purpose!  How can I be sure?
>
> Joe
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I'm not sure  what I did.  I went through a bunch of steps from stuff on
the web and nothing worked.  Then, later when I rebooted, it started
working again.

Joe