Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Unable to mount USB and CD on Gnome
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:05:46
Message-Id: 1278603417.9468.0.camel@oddman.donahues.us.
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Unable to mount USB and CD on Gnome by Clemente Aguiar
1 On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 15:15 +0100, Clemente Aguiar wrote:
2 > For a while now when I insert a CD / DVD or a USB pen drive on my PC, it
3 > will not mount, and GNOME gives an error.
4 >
5 > If it is the DVD the error is as follows:
6 > Unable to mount "DVDLABEL"
7 > Not Authorized
8 >
9 > If it is the USB pen drive the error is similar:
10 > Unable to mount File System 1,0GB
11 > Not Authorized
12 >
13 > If I login as root then there is no problem, the disks will mount (and
14 > automount correctly), but if I login as a "normal" user it will not
15 > automount, and even if I go through the menu and select the drive it
16 > will not mount giving exactly the same error.
17 >
18 > One interesting note is that I can mount and unmount using gnome-mount
19 > and gnome-unmount utilities, for example:
20 >
21 > $ gnome-mount -d /dev/sdb1
22 > $ gnome-umount -d /dev/sdb1
23 >
24 > Can anybody help me with this problem?
25 >
26 >
27 add the user to plugdev

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Unable to mount USB and CD on Gnome Blackdream W <blackdream1890@×××××.com>